We also have the ternary operator ? : ; which is often used in expressions like

That'll be  ?? :: in Perl6.

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I think that is too much information to store in 4 ASCII characters. Some might argue that ? : already goes too far with information-packing. I personally learned C/C++ in a high school class (one of the very few languages I actually took a structured class for) and was never taught about the ? : operator. I never saw it until I learned Java, and even then I almost never used it until I learned Perl. It was a shortcut (and one of the things Java avoids religiously is shortcuts), and I didn't really "get it" for quite some time. Naturally, Perl religiously embraces shortcuts, but I think the operators you propose go too far.

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

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