in reply to meaning of =()=

Thanks all. Just found this page too, which seconds the "goatse" name
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/secret-perl-operators/

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Re^2: meaning of =()=
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jan 04, 2010 at 20:39 UTC
      When I invented @{[]}, I neglected to give it a name. Maybe I should have asked Heidi (Larry Wall's daughter), like I did to come up with <=> as "spaceship", which has apparently stuck (having been even in the text of an error message for a while).

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

      The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

        What about the "Saturn" operator looks very much like it in some images.