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On Dec 21, 2006, at 12:47 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:52:39AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: >> In Perl, a "/" may be an operator or a literal terminator. That would >> be like making +" the string concatenation operator in C. In any other >> language you'd be laughed out of the standards committee for proposing >> such a thing. Perl hackers violently defend it. > Bullshit. The C standards committee is just fine with having at least > two meanings for * and &, and no doubt others that I can't think of off > the top of my head. That's just operator overloading, that's light-years away from such horrors as this hypothetical "plus-quote" operator [eg: (a +" "hello")] that's the kind of nasty syntactical botch that Perl hackers think is so bloody cool. The only case in C where the same symbol is used as a terminator and as an operator is in the comment syntax, and that IS hateful, and you'd be hard pressed to get anyone who really understands C to defend these kinds of 35 year old mistakes in the language. That's NOT excluding Dennis Ritchie, by the way.There's stuff above here
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