working mnemonic for =~

[David L. Nicol]

Steve Fink wrote:


> I couldn't for the life of me
> remember whether it was ~= or =~. I've also observed one perl beginner
> look up the symbol in a book every single time she needed it for a new
> program.


all the self-assignment operators are operator, then equal-sign.
=~ is not a self-assignment operator, so it is the other way from them.