From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T08:56:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

> The >/gt dichotomy prevented me from ever grokking Perl.  *That*
> was unnatural!

The mnemonic there was to use the "stringish" comparitors to compare
values as strings (since, as the poster noted, context made the
difference, not the data).



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