Question about checks for min and max values

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: "filePro mailing list" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Question about checks for min and max values


> 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.

Didn't Nancy once point out that in truth, filepro was around before most of 
these other languages and there was no such standard at the time fp was 
created, and in fact filepro's behaviour adheres to the standards of basic 
math and logic which were worked out looooong before annnnnnny programming 
language? And it's most current programming languages that deviate?

Yes what's that? I didn't quite hear... :)

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