On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:34:49AM -0700, Chris Hostetter wrote:
>
> For the record, bwarnock pointed out to me that damian allready proposed
> this behavior in RFC 25...
>
> http://dev.perl.org/rfc/25.html
>
> That RFC doesn't suggest having the comparison operators set properties
> on their result -- instead it recomends that "multiple chained comparisons
> should be automagically expanded to the equivalent binary conjunction."
> ... I think I like his way better. Mainly because I didn't consider the
> ramifications of scenerios like this...
>
> $input = 4;
> $bool = $input < 22; # $bool = 1 is valueR(22)
> print "ok!" if $bool == 1; # whoops, '==' is looking at $bool.valueR
Well perhaps $input < 22 should yield 22 is true
Graham.
