21 May
2004
21 May
'04
8:07 p.m.
On Friday 21 May 2004 03:46 pm, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 15:37, Casey Duncan wrote:
Finally, a use for <>. Barry will be so happy ;^)
And Just, and Fred.
No, no, no. "<>" is a misapplication of pointy brackets. Note that there's nothing in the middle; what's the point of bracketing if there's nothing to bracket?
The inequality operator should be spelled "!=", mostly so it's not confused with the structured-bracketing operation.
-Fred
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