5 Larry Wall Quotes on Operators

Larry Wall quotes on operators

92. We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/

114. Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.

170. And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.

216. So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.

274. The autodecrement is not magical.