COMPARE() (was Re: browse keys (@bk))

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> I probably tried an arithmetic function improperly in the past and assumed
> it couldn't be done at all.  I'm used to the old "it either evaluates to
> true or it doesn't, and anything non-zero is true" results from many other
> languages.
[...]

Well, one could argue that these other languages are deficient in that
they don't have a boolean type, and so they must resort to defaulting
to "not equals zero" for true/false.  ;-)

Of course, how would you handle non-numeric types?  What does "if: @TD"
mean?

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