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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: klingon swears
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On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:45:08 -0500, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 9/1/2009 18:00:49 Eastern Daylight Time,
> vonunov@gmail.com writes:
>
>
>> "<>" != "!="
>>
>> --
>> Jack Aviado
>>
>
> What's the difference?
>
> stevo

The only diamond operator (<>) that I know of is in Perl, and there it is  
used to indicate that the value it represents will be provided by the user  
 from STDIN. Example:

my $foo = <>;
print <>;

When the script runs, user must type something which will be assigned to  
$foo and printed.

!= is simply "not equals" operator, acting like the slashed equals you  
often see in written maths, and I imagine this is what Michael meant.

-- 
Jack Aviado
http://jack.is/
Whence spring these inclinations, rank and strong?
And harming no one, wherefore call them wrong?