May 15, 2003

spaceship operator

n.

The glyph <=>, so-called apparently because in the low-resolution constant-width font used on many terminals it vaguely resembles a flying saucer. Perl uses this to denote the signum-of-difference operation.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:29 AM

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