At 09:47 AM 2/21/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>"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> Mayb
It can't be that confusing at first glance if English dedicates a slot
way up in the huffman table to the word, eh?
print "; "
if ($need_eol but $current_column < 21);
OTOH, this might become an "and grep-not" operator for (was it
Damian?)'s quantum operators:
@y = all(@x) but { /^anti/ }
"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>
