in reply to Range question

You are not using the range operator, you are using the flip-flop operator.   .. in list context is the range operator while .. in scalar context (like in your code example) is the flip-flop operator.

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Re^2: Range question
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 10, 2009 at 03:52 UTC
    Why don't you turn that nit into a patch for perlop which calls it the range operator in both instances?
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