Jonathan Scott Duff writes: > @a `+ @b
Ick. In my experience, many people actually don't get the backtick character at all. They can't find it on the keyboard, and they don't really see what's so different about it from apostrophe. Indeed, many typefaces (including common print-media faces, like Courier) make it _really_ hard to distinguish backtick from apostrophe. I always hate teaching people what backticks do -- not because the concept is difficult, but because the syntax is so alien to so many people. So I teach qx// for Perl, and $() for Unix shell, and I throw in backticks as an extra 'you might also see this' affair. Anyway, that was a bit of a rant, but what I mean is: I'd actually be in favour of avoiding backtick entirely in operators. -- Aaron Crane * GBdirect Ltd. http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/
