From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 01 17:06:57 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MidNJ-0004YN-4O for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:57 -0700 Received: from mail-yw0-f201.google.com ([209.85.211.201]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MidNF-0004Xu-KH for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:56 -0700 Received: by ywh39 with SMTP id 39so680926ywh.32 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:content-type:to:subject :references:date:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:from :message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=tOZwIAI+Hv01Px+6tIpWHv7XvmDoL4OtmZ+wVmpIZls=; b=Nj7WsTMHV/TXrvIMsm40V74DXPu1fp0b6N8u83ck2f8xepN50Cym4ExFo7lyOIai0B ozSZJdmt5ih/uZzDr88iX2GhPuTo3iHs+MfWrge6yag42fygAtH+APlT2u1u0MYAjpQd iCh7XvkxxOdYlQw8LYQiFkXfWOl91V8E/EEcI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=content-type:to:subject:references:date:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:from:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=nbyBmlxnK7b805OfooHy/2eWyToO25g0bnj3bvtuwdUhDYiNeuM6m6OgmG0Ns/RUaD InNHiWyZwll/vhIaxPlAPk666dxysP5S1Q8YVNm6qn0IV+4yFizateuS9BrcmE9lfOKH roALhe0Luz1w7EaO5fbCLE22o2NyjYZ16HxAA= Received: by 10.91.148.11 with SMTP id a11mr5557104ago.14.1251850007229; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from black.gateway.2wire.net (99-58-1-192.lightspeed.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net [99.58.1.192]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm399524agd.46.2009.09.01.17.06.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "<>" Re: Re: klingon swears References: Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:08:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Jack Aviado" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.00 (Win32) X-archive-position: 2164 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: vonunov@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:02:01 -0500, wrote: > > I see. Before Perl, the "diamond" operator ("<>") was used in languages > like Basic to mean "is not equal to". It's still used that way in MS > Excel > and Open Office Calc filters. > So it really is the same thing as Perl "!=". The Perl usage of "<>" is > the > 'non-standard' one. > > stevo Oh, okay. I worried that I was missing something, and did a search for the operator to be sure, but all I found was Perl. Thanks. -- Jack Aviado http://jack.is/ Whence spring these inclinations, rank and strong? And harming no one, wherefore call them wrong?