Re: Strings vs Numbers (Re: Tying & Overloading)

[Graham Barr]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:46:20PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:59:54PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > > Doesn't ~ look like a piece of string to you?  :-)
> > It looks like a bitwise op to me, personally.
> 
> That's because every time you've used it in Perl, it's been a bitwise
> op. Sapir-Whorf, and all that.

Not just Perl. Many other languages use ~ the same as Perl
does now.

Graham.