Question about checks for min and max values

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 06:39:39PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> You think "" eq "0" is bad? You should have heard me when I first discovered 
> that "abcdefg" eq "abc"  !
> But even that is perfectly OK and logical and useful (actually _very_ 
> useful) and doesn't get in the way or cause any problems as long as you know 
> about it.

It may be useful, but I continue to assert that it is neither logical,
nor OK.

The semantics of "=" are *very* well defined in the discipline of
programming language design, and language designers override them at
their peril.  Spelling it differently (ie: "eq") doesn't *really* get
you off the hook.

IMHO.

Cheers,
-- jra
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