> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Allbery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 8:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: !< and !>
>
>
> Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Why is it ">=" and not "=>"?
>
> Because in English, it's "less than or equal to" not "equal to or less
> than," I presume.
>
> > Simply trying to remember the order of characters might be (a bit of) a
> > pain. That problem doesn't exist with "!<" and "!>".
>
> Every other programming language I've ever seen uses >= and <=. I think
This is Perl. Why should it be like every other langage? what happens to
innovation?
> adding additional comparison operators not found in any other language and
> identical to (and harder to type than!) existing operators is a really bad
> idea.
I don't see anything bad about, don't like it don't use it. I can tell you
quite a few things I don't particularly like in Perl, but what I like is
more than one way of doing things, so I choose my preference. I can't
recall a langage with unless() either, but sure help is exression writting
sometimes.
Ilya
>
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