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“ And in the backslashed form, [the reduction metaoperator] needs something with a vertical feel on the left representing the “left margin,” or we lose much of the triangular feeling, so square brackets work nicely together with backslash that way. It all adds up to an almost overwhelming feeling of necessity — which is why the language designer must also guard against adding up too many apples and then comparing them to orangutans.
— TimToady a.k.a. Larry Wall, or was it vice versa?
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