> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan C. Warnock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: Russ Allbery; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: !< and !>
>
>
> On Saturday 01 September 2001 05:40 pm, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Sterin, Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> From: Russ Allbery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >>
> > >> How is !< different from >=?
> > >
> > > It's just more syntax just like foo != bar
> > > is the same as (foo > bar || foo < bar).
> > >
> > > It might prove convenient to express the expression.
> >
> > It's the same number of characters. How can it be more convenient?
>
> You only have to manipulate the shift key once! ;-)
>
> I'm waiting for someone to say that in tri-state logic, '!<' != '>='....
I was actually thinking a similar before I send the initial reply, but I
just can't see a scenerio where it would be easily expressed !<=> :-)
Ilya
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