What do you call this in Ruby?

Such little imagination... You should learn from your forefathers. Quantity is no substitute for quality. ;)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.cpan.org&#x2F;dist&#x2F;perlsecret&#x2F;lib&#x2F;perlsecret.pod#SYNOPSIS" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.cpan.org&#x2F;dist&#x2F;perlsecret&#x2F;lib&#x2F;perlsecret.pod#SY...</a>

Meanwhile:<p><pre><code> Mathematica 10.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) Copyright 1988-2014 Wolfram Research, Inc. In[1]:= FullForm[x-&gt;y*z^w] Out[1]&#x2F;&#x2F;FullForm= Rule[x, Times[y, Power[z, w]]] In[2]:= x\[UnionPlus]y\[RightTee]z Out[2]= x ⊎ y ⊢ z </code></pre> There&#x27;s no reason your programming language shouldn&#x27;t be able to tell you what these things are called in English without an external reference.

Say what you will about us, but Ruby people get to have the most fun.<p><i>hops on hipster hashrocket and tribbles off into the sunset</i>

I had a Microsoft support technician ask us to press the &quot;flower button&quot; in a powershell script. It took a while to work out he meant { and }.

This sums up what I dislike most about Scala (which is an even worse offender in this regard). A rule of thumb: if a 10-year-old wouldn&#x27;t be able to intuitively read the operator, use words.

This seems like it could have been prime territory for a bit of surrealist&#x2F;meta fiction, with gradually stranger descriptions of operators turning into a short story of some kind.

I will be using bacon cannon from here on out

Normal single-character operators also have names:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;jargon&#x2F;html&#x2F;A&#x2F;ASCII.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;jargon&#x2F;html&#x2F;A&#x2F;ASCII.html</a>

How did hashrocket get named? I would think instead of =&gt; a hashrocket would look like: #&gt;<p>edit: Makes total sense. Thanks for the replies.

Wish I worked with a language with a === operator so I could say &quot;threequals&quot;. Very clever and fitting.

A select few operators (out of hundreds) for a single Haskell library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ekmett&#x2F;lens&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operators" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ekmett&#x2F;lens&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operators</a><p>(For full disclosure, the lens library is infamous for this.)

... is an ellipsis.<p>! is enunciated as &quot;bang&quot; from BASH parlance, iirc.

Looks like quite a few of these were cribbed from the intercal character set[0]. Nice to see that living on.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.muppetlabs.com&#x2F;~breadbox&#x2F;intercal-man&#x2F;tonsila.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.muppetlabs.com&#x2F;~breadbox&#x2F;intercal-man&#x2F;tonsila.htm...</a>

Just added a PR for the spermy operator (~&gt;).

my favorite is the &quot;Elvis operator&quot; in kotlin ?:<p>Took me a while to figure out why it was called that way.

&gt; =~<p>Cigarette operator! This list is on fire.

I like to call crab clows &#x27;insert.&#x27;

&#x27;!!&#x27; -&gt; &quot;truthy?&quot;

i like the yoda operator: !!!<p>i&#x27;ve never used it... what&#x27;s a good use case?

stabby lambda is my favorite.

dat bacon cannon