> -----Original Message----- > From: Rod Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'd be seriously annoyed if eq went away. It's one of > those things that makes Perl Perl. It's up there with > the postfix if. > > ~$a == ~$b > feels too much like: > Cast(String, $a).Compare(Cast(String, $b)) > But it's far easier to convert polymorphic == into an eq macro than to convert eq into an == macro. :-) =Austin
