Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: sort Message-ID: <1990Aug30.075025.5609@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 30 Aug 90 07:50:25 GMT References: <1990Aug21.224327.20194@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Aug22.111018.3329@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <105536@convex.convex.com> <1990Aug29.191454.23527@iwarp.intel.com> <9337@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) In article <9337@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax (Larry Wall) writes: | I just had the weirdest thought. The ne and != operators should maybe | return -1 or +1 when the operands aren't equal. And when Larry has weird thoughts, *I* get to write them down. :-) Yeah. >>patch29, right? Along with -A, -C, -M filetests and "DATA" filehandle. Or did you not announce that yet? Oops... too late. :-) print "Just another Perl [book] hacker," -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/