This is an excellent thread for folks new to Perl like me. Perhaps moving this thread to the Tutorials section would be appropriate.
I have been wondering about significant examples of operator overloading within Perl and this is a good one.
Perhaps a reason for the need for operator overloading is due to the finite number of symbols on a standard keyboard?
To me having an operator with six or seven different meanings could lend to confusion, but perhaps the burden of concocting different operators for each of the seven meanings is too great.
I haven't finished reading Wall et al's "Programming Perl" so I don't know what the creator's philosophy is in this regard.

Edited by planetscape - removed small tags

In reply to Re^3: Six uses for curlies? by Scott7477
in thread Six uses for curlies? by glwtta

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