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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
August 13, 2013 00:49
Subject:
Re: postfix dereference syntax
Message ID:
20130813004855.25557.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
David Nicol wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
> > Then $x = $x->[-1] becomes $x ->= [1->-*].
> 
> that's silly.

And then we need an assignment version of =~ so we can write:

$foo =~= y/a/b/r;
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