Comments on: What do you call this: =>

By: SitePoint Blogs » Dynamically Typed’s New Contributor

SitePoint Blogs » Dynamically Typed’s New Contributor — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:23:36 +0000

[…] It all began some time ago, with a perfectly innocent post to SitePoint’s PHP blog. Little did Kev know that his lighthearted comments would eventually see the addition of Maarten Manders, Swiss Computer Science student and PHP guru, to the ranks of the SitePoint Bloggers. […]

By: GC

GC — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:05:19 +0000

$k => $v\n

$k says, “Gimme all your value(able)s! or I’ll tell the compiler!” to $v

Captain is the rank (post) of all php patterns.

” => “ is called JackSparrow! (note, the spaces are part of the pattern :)
[“=>” would be just sparrow..]

I call it Captain JackSparrow

By: AC

AC — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:31:06 +0000

When I was first learning Perl, my professor referred to ‘=>’ and the ‘rocket ship operator’. I’ve always liked that.

By: Mc P.

Mc P. — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:48:29 +0000

Call it “quitschiboo”

By: Monkeyhead

Monkeyhead — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:38:47 +0000

i vote for Jipper

By: Scheisskopf

Scheisskopf — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:25:14 +0000

No, but then again i don’t Hitler did either. Tell you what, let’s call it ASP.

By: sodster

sodster — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:33:41 +0000

does it make coffee?

By: Scheisskopf

Scheisskopf — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:15:29 +0000

Call it Hitler.

By: redbone

redbone — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:18:51 +0000

Shouldn’t you be checking the Perl manual? Perl used it for associative arrays first

By: Quaint

Quaint — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:45:18 +0000

It’s just the “equals and larget than sign” operator.. What I mean is, it doesn’t have a name, so I use a descriptive one describing what it is made of, instead of what it does…