Stupid me: fell into this trap:
0 == 0 == 0
[1] FALSE
Ouch!
Python's comparison operators don't have this trap, since they unravel each comparison pair in a chain so that:
(A op1 B op2 C)
becomes:
(A op1 B) and (B op2 C)
If you want:
(A op1 B) op2 C
you have to put the parens in, and that makes you remember there's some Boolean arithmetic going on in there.
This is a nice feature, since we all are used to reading expressions like 2 < X < 10, and you can write them like that in Python, and they mean what they look like.
You can write like that in R, but beware, its not just 0 == 0 == 0 that opens the trap:
> X = 5 > 10 < X < 0 [1] FALSE > 0 > X > 10 [1] TRUE
Of course old hand Fortran programmers understand all this since the second thing they learnt (after learning how to tap the space bar six times) was the order of precedence of operators...
Baz
PS oh, and in Perl (0 == 0 == 0) is a syntax error!
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