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[Colin Meyer]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:27:21PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> In article <20020212180659.F15153 at hobart.helvella.org>,
> Colin Meyer <cmeyer at helvella.org> wrote:
> >That's one problem with the Perl documentation: scalar .. isn't the
> >range operator, it's the flip flop op! List context .. is the range
> >operator. Despite the similarity in syntax, it's much easier to think of
> >them as different ops.
> 
> pp_flip and pp_flop are actually separate, so it's not really flip flop op,
> it's flip flop ops :)

Ssh! You're saying too much. Now you'll have people perusing perldoc
perlapi, pp_ctl.c and the like, attempting to decipher the nice, simple
flip flop op. ;-)

But for the curious, try looking at:

perl -MO=Terse -e'$a=1..10'

perl -MO=Terse -e'@a=1..10'

perl -MO=Terse -e'$x=10;@a=1..$x'

perl -MO=Terse -e'push @a,$_ for 1..10'

# and so on . . .

hehehe

Have fun,
-C.

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