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From: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: sort
Message-ID: <1633@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 90 13:23:29 GMT
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Reply-To: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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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.
>
No, no, please don't do that. It would be very confusing if != and
! == didn't mean the same thing. It would probably break old programs as well.

Besides, such a feature would only be useful in sort sub's (right ?) and
it isn't that hard to write them correctly.

	Jan D.