From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T22:53:18+09:00
Subject: Re: question about if-statements

On Aug 15, 2006, at 14:40, fabsy wrote:

> Thanks!
>
>> Btw, why do you compare with greater than and a string?
> I didn't know how to compare so I just guessed it would be greater
> than.
> How would you do if you where to do a program like mine? The way you
> wrote or any other way?

Well, you're testing for equality, so greater than wouldn't catch a  
lot of cases.  I'd suggest these:

if     X != Y # X not equal to Y

unless X == Y # X equal to Y

You can pick the one that's more linguistically appealing to you,  
though I have a hunch that 'if' is more popular than 'unless'.

matthew smillie.