Re: [FWP] Fun with terminology

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

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.

"unary" carries less information. 
Prefix and postfix operators are both unary.

@prefix::ISA = @postfix::ISA = qw( unary );

-- 
John Porter


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