From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T10:08:32+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).

Yes, I'm aware of that.  But I kept getting errors in my code that were
hard to work out.  Even though I "knew" the difference, errors kept
slipping in because it's not a natural difference.

I haven't really explained myself well, I know.

Gavin