Re^2: Poll: How should the =( )= be called???

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> It shuold be called the Stupid Line-Noise Trick That Shouldn't Be Used In Production Code.

I'm curious, what exactly is your "Best Practice" alternative for production code?

Cheers Rolf

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Re^3: Poll: How should the =( )= be called??? by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 15, 2010 at 11:29 UTC
If I need it in code, I would spell it `= () =` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Poll: How should the =( )= be called??? by Gavin (Archbishop) on Jan 15, 2010 at 11:38 UTC
"If I need it in code, I would spell it" And how will you pronounce it?	[reply]
Re^5: Poll: How should the =( )= be called??? by LanX (Saint) on Jan 15, 2010 at 12:28 UTC
> > "If I need it in code, I would spell it" > And how will you pronounce it? Nippl-e !	[reply]
Re^5: Poll: How should the =( )= be called??? by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 15, 2010 at 13:44 UTC
Why would I pronounce it? It's not even a real operator, and hence I wouldn't write it as such in serious code. `$count = () = /foo/g;` [download] is just "assign the number of occurrences of foo to count". Or would you say: `scalar-sigil identifier-count scalar-assign empty-list list-assign match-open regexp-literal-foo match-close modifier-g semi-colon` possibly replacing `scalar-assign empty-list list-assign` with `goatse` or another name?	[reply] [d/l]

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