From: Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T05:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: My second day of learning Ruby (and my seconds feels)


Simen Edvardsen wrote:
>
> It's the allmighty flip-flop operator*. Useful only for obfuscating
> code. It's not worthy of your attention unless your implementing ruby.

IIRC, it's being dropped in Ruby 2.0 anyway.