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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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