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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "No K directive" in 1.3's Execute
Message-ID: <2509@antique.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 16:51:51 GMT
References: <1989Jan6.183818.19500@ziebmef.uucp> <10291@well.UUCP> <2497@antique.UUCP> <5661@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <5661@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
<In article <2497@antique.UUCP> vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier) writes:
<>Didn't someone claim that the decision to overload < and > was deliberate?

<Nope; what I stated was that the decision to *leave it the way it was*
<was deliberate....
<It would become possible for those files to suddenly start creating
<lots of funny little files where variable substitution used to take place.

mumble grumble ... Ok, good point.  

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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