From: hal9000@...
Date: 2000-09-28T02:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5160] Re: Types and ===


>
> Hal writes:
>
> # Well, Aleksi,
> #
> # You and Conrad are certainly following the
> # Principle of Greatest Surprise.
>
> I'm have no idea how you drew that connection in my case, especially
since
> both of you omitted to quote, mention, or summarize most everything of
> relevance in my original note, and both of you seemed to miss its main
> point.
>

Sorry, Conrad, I probably did miss its main point. Your list of
relations was so unusual and exhaustive that I assumed it was some
kind of joke.

Now Aleksi will tell me that he too was being serious...

OK, let me ask this: Are you giving examples of possible uses for
=== that are not commutative? Or is this tangential to what I was
talking about? Or neither?

Hal

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