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From:
philippe.bruhat
Date:
February 1, 2005 22:00
Subject:
Re: "Secret" operators
Message ID:
20050202055830.GA21692@localhost.localdomain
Le mardi 01 février 2005 à 20:56, Quantum Mechanic écrivait:
> --- Andrew Savige <ajsavige@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > Let's not forget the Ton Hospel "high-precedence
> > decrement"
> > operator ~- invented during a golf tournament
> > (anyone remember
> > which one?).
> > 
> 
> What did he call it?
> 
> I'd suggest the "inchworm", because in some fonts, it
> resembles an inchworm on a stick.

So we have :

    symbol    nickname                Role
    ------    --------                ----
    <=>       spaceship               documented operator

    0+        venus                   numification
    }{        eskimo greeting         END{} in one-liners
    =()=      goatse
    ~-        inchworm on a stick     high-precedence numification
    ~~        inchworm                scalar
    "@{[]}"                           join $", ...
    -+-       spacestation            high-precedence numification

Not bad for a start.

-- 
 Philippe "BooK" Bruhat

 Everyone acts their age... mental, if not physical.
                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #92 (Epic))

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