On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:09:26PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 09Aug2005 11:16, Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On 09 Aug 2005 08:47:10 +0200, Rafal Bisingier wrote: > | > I personaly don't like perl's string operators (eq, ne, etc.) > | > | Is it because of "perl" or because of "eq", "ne" names? These names are > | also tcl's expr operators, and you may find them in the test(1) man page. > > Where they are conveniently swapped in application. The "-lt" etc are > numeric operators in test(1), because = and != are already taken for > lexical comparison.
That's another reason to not use this silly notation... ;-) -- Rafal Bisingier
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