>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It just Sam> implies that the second condition is not generally what you'd expect if Sam> the first was true. Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make it "even_though". :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!