browse keys (@bk)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:44:09PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > And, for what it's worth, if it does work that way despite my test,
> > then John was wrong, Wrong, WRONG!  (Mooo ha ha ha .... :-)
> > 
> > And the original coder was doing it right.
> 
> The original coder had lines like:
> 
> > If: @bk = "s" or @bk = "S"
> 
> This is redundant, since both tests are equivalent.
> 
> John was pointing this out, saying the code looked like the original
> programmer thought you needed both tests.

I'll have to re-read it: it sounded to *me* like John's point was based
on the never-upper-case-ness of @BK, not on the pairs of comparisons,
but I can see how that could be easily misunderstood.

Of course, unlike my test code, his would work in either order, since
it's an OR.

Oops.  Sorry.

Cheers,
-- jra
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