Larry Wall Quotes on Operators
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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. :-/
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Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
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So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.
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The autodecrement is not magical.