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Re^4: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Jun 05, 2012 at 12:37 UTC ( [id://974445]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?
in thread What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

I don't say ~> is bad, I just want every new grammar/op adding during perl5 evolved should keep consistent.

Too late. Tilde already has a full house of contextual overloads: 

print ~'fred';;
ÖìÜø

print ~12345;;
18446744073709539270

print ~( 2 != 2 );;
18446744073709551615

print ~~( '2' eq '2' );;
1

~\'fred';;
¼╝¥│¥¡Î¤ç═ã╩פÃÍ

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One more is neither here nor there.

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