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.
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