What I want to discuss is Why?

For me, this is one of the most annoying questions that get asked about the way things work in perl. You can ask it about ANYTHING, and the answers is alway one of:

• Because Larry wanted it so
• Because some patch by the perl5-porters made it so
• Its a bug (doesn't apply if its documented -- documented bugs are features)
• It doesn't matter why, that's the way it works, there is nothing to discuss :)

[And can I get my own personalized q* operators? That would be cool. Maybe qm(), for QM? ;^)]

Sure, why not? If you're talking about perl5, you need to use filters of course. If you're talking perl6, you'll have to check http://perl6.org (i don't recall off the top of my head).

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