"tt>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */. (Larry Wall)

"tt>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */.

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