MRAB wrote:
Fortran uses "=" and ".EQ.", probably because (some) earlier autocodes did.
I think Fortran used .LT. and .GT. because some early character sets didn't have < and > symbols. Having done that, it probably seemed more consistent to use .EQ. for comparison than to break the pattern and use =. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
