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> Nope, I still think most ordinary people want different operators for > strings than for numbers. Dictionaries and calculators have very > different interfaces in the real world, and it's false economy to > overgeneralize. Witness the travails of people trying to use > cell phones to type messages. Logic error: False analogy. But as for the different operators, true, I believe, as long as we aren't introducing strong typing, or traditional typing in the $%@& sense. This addresses clarity without imposing verbosity. Add verbosity and there's no reason not to migrate to C# or Java. But then, none of this has been proposed so far except in the form of questions and concerns. pThread Previous | Thread Next