[lojban-beginners] Re: "<>" Re: Re: klingon swears

["Jack Aviado" <vonunov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:02:01 -0500, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> 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.

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