On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:56:16AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : Arguably autogenerated operators should give way to hardwired ones, : much like foo\w* gives way to foobar currently.
Though I should point out that this wouldn't help with -=, since it's autogenerated either way, unless you divide the token into literal and wildcard like foo\w*, in which case literal - and meta = wins over meta - and literal =, since wildcardness currently treats the remainder of the token as wild even if there are additional literal components. Larry
