NAME perlop - Perl operators and precedence DESCRIPTION In Perl, the operator determines what operation is performed, independent of the type of the operands. For example $x + $y is always a numeric addition, and if $x or $y do not contain numbers, an attempt is made to convert them to numbers first. This is in contrast to many other dynamic languages, where the operation is determined by the type
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