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From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: sort
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Date: 4 Sep 90 19:47:36 GMT
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Dale Worley writes:

      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.

   Yeah, that'd be both neat and useful.


I sent a note to Larry suggesting this, but here it is again...
Why not "@" for cmp?  i.e.

	$a @ $b 

asks where $a is at in relation to $b.  Because the @ is whitespace
delimited and is looking for strings, it doesn't clash with the @array
token.