Nathan Wiger wrote:
> So < could mean "more" and > could mean "less". 

That would sure confuse the math subcommunity!  ;-)


> "more" and "less" could be inverses, "more" reading from the current
> position forward and "less" from the current position backwards. This 
> notion could be generalized to files/networks/stacks/datastructs/etc/etc.

Ugck.  < means read, > means write.  Do you want to be that
different from shell?  Or from Perl, for that matter?



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John Porter

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