To continue my learning of Unicode Emojis, I thought it'd be fun to try to concoct emojis for some of Perl's famous secret operators.

Here's what I've come up with so far:

NameOperatorEmojiNotes
Diamond<>💎nicknamed by Geneva Wall circa 1994
Spaceship<=>🚀nicknamed by Heidi Wall and Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn 🪄) circa 1994
Saturn*=( )=🪐scalar/list context
Kite~~<>🪁a single line of input
Babycart@{[ ]}👒🛷list interpolation, invented by Larry 🧱 (TimToady) circa 1994

*Note: I have chosen not to use the taboo name for this secret operator used at perlsecret

I found this exercise to be surprisingly challenging. Unable to find an emoji for BooK's quirky Babycart (or a pram), I opted instead to look for emojis that do justice to the LanX's imaginative suggestion of Mexican Sledge -- because he visualizes @{[ ]} as a guy with sombrero dragging a sled(ge) uphill.

Please feel free to suggest alternative Unicode emojis for the secret operators above and to concoct emojis for other secret operators.

See Also

Updated: removed duplicate Mexican Sledge reference; added attribution to Heidi Wall; added Wall emoji for Larry and magic wand emoji for merlyn. 

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