"Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sam> No, "but" is syntactically equivalent to "and" in English. It
Sam> just implies that the second condition is not generally what
Sam> you'd expect if the first was true.
Randal> Maybe in the interest of huffman encoding, we could make
Randal> it "even_though". :)
Or we could compromise on "despite".
But (sigh) when I first looked at this proposal, I thought, "Now what the heck is he
trying to say that 'and' doesn't cover?"
Is it really syntactic sugar if it's confusing at first glance?
John A
