On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:11:12AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > Incidentally, can someone explain to me why perlop uses the term 'prefix' > here: > > Here is what C has that Perl doesn't: > > unary * Dereference-address operator. (Perl's prefix > dereferencing operators are typed: $, @, %, and &.) > > instead of 'unary'? It seems to me that the Perl dereferencing operators > are just as unary as C's *, so I'm wondering why the mix of terminology in > the same paragraph. > Probably because Perl also has the infix dereferencing operator -> which is not typed. Ronald ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe