++ japhy, this made my day... Of course, with all the OOP stuff I've been doing I wish that I could set a scalar equal to a reference to itself ala: $x \= $x; That would help immensely for those cases where I have a plain scalar and need a scalar ref...

Update: While we are at it, we should work out good uses for the "reverse comma" '<=', and the "back arrow" '<-' since we use their forward versions so much...

You are all aware these are jokes, right? I got a couple of messages that worried me...

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$you = new YOU;
honk() if $you->KnowI'mKiddingAboutThatOp(perl)