What is the origin of the word "arisdottle"?

Question

An arisdottle is :: and can be used when running prove to execute Perl tests. The documentation for prove states that:

It is possible to supply arguments to tests. To do so separate them from
prove's own arguments with the arisdottle, '::'. For example

    prove -v t/mytest.t :: --url http://example.com

would run t/mytest.t with the options '--url http://example.com'. When
running multiple tests they will each receive the same arguments.

I'm interested in the origin of this term. It's hard to Google. I asked in #toolchain on irc.perl.org and I have yet to get a concrete answer. For historical reasons, I thought it would be helpful to document the term here.

Answer 1

I worked on Test::Harness and prove.

While I don't remember specifically, it is likely a portmanteau of "dot" and "Aristotle". Aristotle Pagaltzis is a Perl contributor, he contributed to Test::Harness, and is probably the person who came up with the idea. Aristotle is also credited with the Enterprise operator ( )x!!.

Andy Armstrong wrote that doc line and would likely be able to confirm.