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by vundercind 750 days ago
I’ve used it for coloring alternating lines differently in UI code, and as a lazy way to log only every so many times some loop runs.

I only know it well because it was covered near the beginning of one of the first programming books I picked up (on Perl 5) and it stuck with me because it seemed wild to me that they had an operator for that.