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From: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: sort
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Date: 1 Sep 90 18:50:43 GMT
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>I just had the weirdest thought.  The ne and != operators should maybe
>return -1 or +1 when the operands aren't equal.

Call it something else, like "cmp" and "<=>" and I'll take it.  I've
had vague yearnings for a comparison operator for a long time.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu