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On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:34:49AM -0700, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > For the record, bwarnock pointed out to me that damian allready proposed > this behavior in RFC 25... > > http://dev.perl.org/rfc/25.html > > That RFC doesn't suggest having the comparison operators set properties > on their result -- instead it recomends that "multiple chained comparisons > should be automagically expanded to the equivalent binary conjunction." > ... I think I like his way better. Mainly because I didn't consider the > ramifications of scenerios like this... > > $input = 4; > $bool = $input < 22; # $bool = 1 is valueR(22) > print "ok!" if $bool == 1; # whoops, '==' is looking at $bool.valueR Well perhaps $input < 22 should yield 22 is true Graham.Thread Previous | Thread Next