Us die-hard old-timers who have been brought up on archaic languages like C are quite familiar with the operators you mention - they are taken from C.
Now that newfangled //= operator is something else - I seem to recollect (foggily that is) that it took several years and approximately 3 cubic lightyears of flames on the P5P list before it was accepted.
Now don't you start along that road young whipper-snapper - we'll rustle up a posse of compatibility police and chase you out of the territory.

Seriously: I don't think I have had use for your suggested operators more than a couple of times, and so I don't think it would be worth the trouble. Implement them as functions - that would get rid of the evaluate twice problem.
You can even call them meaningfull and pretty names like 'max', 'min' and so on.
Wouldn't that solve your problems?

In reply to Re: A set of new operators. In keeping with the design of Perl? by htoug
in thread A set of new operators. In keeping with the design of Perl? by BrowserUk

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