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Definning the three stooges of categories
iffie, diffie and fiddly. Defined according to copied IRC chat from @TimToady as transcribed by @kalkin in #728 Definitely not contributed to clean up the page, rather the obverse, but I'm all in for cleaning, dirtying, or whatever is decided about this page.
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=head1 diffy
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X<|diffy>
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See L<operator|#Operator>.
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See L<operator|#Operator>. It means the type of the operator result is
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sufficiently different from its arguments that op= makes little sense
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=head1 Exegesis
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=head1 fiddly
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See L<operator|#Operator>.
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Too complicated to apply a metaop to. See L<operator|#Operator>.
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=head1 handles
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X<|handles>
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=head1 iffy
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See L<operator|#Operator>.
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Often used as a boolean value. See L<operator|#Operator>.
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=head1 Instance

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