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This came up on #perl recently, why are the filetest operators in perlfunc?
They sure look like unary operators to me. I wouldn't think to look for them
amongst the functions.
There's only one mention of them in perlop, and that's this.
Regarding precedence, the filetest operators, like "-f", "-M", etc. are
treated like named unary operators, but they don't follow this func-
tional parenthesis rule. That means, for example, that
"-f($file).".bak"" is equivalent to "-f "$file.bak"".
Even the perlfunc entry says they're ops.
-X FILEHANDLE
-X EXPR
-X A file test, where X is one of the letters listed below. This
unary operator takes one argument
Would anyone be opposed to their docs being moved to perlop?
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