C Operators Missing From Perl Here is what C has that Perl doesn't: unary & Address-of
Shift Operators Binary "<<" returns the value of its left argument shifted left by
Quote and Quote-like Operators While we usually think of quotes as literal values, in Perl they function as operators, providing various kinds
Equality Operators Binary "==" returns true if the left argument is numerically equal to
Multiplicative Operators Binary "*" multiplies two numbers. Binary
Floating-point Arithmetic While use
Bitwise And Binary "&" returns its operands ANDed together bit by bit. Although no warning
Comma Operator Binary "," is the comma operator. In scalar context it evaluates its left
Smartmatch Operator First available in Perl 5.10.1 (the 5.10.0 version behaved differently), binary ~~ does a "smartmatch"
Gory details of parsing quoted constructs When presented with something that might have several different interpretations, Perl uses the DWIM
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