Why are the file test operators in perlfunc?

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

This came up on #perl recently, why are the filetest operators in perlfunc?
They sure look like unary operators to me.  I wouldn't think to look for them
amongst the functions.

There's only one mention of them in perlop, and that's this.

       Regarding precedence, the filetest operators, like "-f", "-M", etc. are
       treated like named unary operators, but they don't follow this func-
       tional parenthesis rule.  That means, for example, that
       "-f($file).".bak"" is equivalent to "-f "$file.bak"".

Even the perlfunc entry says they're ops.

       -X FILEHANDLE
       -X EXPR
       -X      A file test, where X is one of the letters listed below.  This
               unary operator takes one argument

Would anyone be opposed to their docs being moved to perlop?


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