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From:
Sterin, Ilya
Date:
September 1, 2001 21:51
Subject:
RE: !< and !>
Message ID:
JNEKKMEFOONJHHJBIMEDKEIFCGAA.isterin@ciber.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan C. Warnock [mailto:bwarnock@capita.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: Russ Allbery; perl6-language@perl.org
> Subject: Re: !< and !>
>
>
> On Saturday 01 September 2001 05:40 pm, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Sterin, Ilya <Isterin@ciber.com> writes:
> > >> From: Russ Allbery [mailto:rra@stanford.edu]
> > >>
> > >> How is !< different from >=?
> > >
> > > It's just more syntax just like foo != bar
> > > is the same as (foo > bar || foo < bar).
> > >
> > > It might prove convenient to express the expression.
> >
> > It's the same number of characters.  How can it be more convenient?
>
> You only have to manipulate the shift key once!  ;-)
>
> I'm waiting for someone to say that in tri-state logic, '!<' != '>='....

I was actually thinking a similar before I send the initial reply, but I
just can't see a scenerio where it would be easily expressed !<=> :-)

Ilya


>
> --
> Bryan C. Warnock
> bwarnock@capita.com

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