not operator operator..

[Anders F Björklund]

Derek Parnell wrote:

> A language that I use daily (Progress 4GL) not only has the standard
> operators defined in terms of symbol characters etc... is also has them
> defined as ...
> 
>  eq
>  ne
>  gt
>  lt
>  ge
>  le
> 
> so one can write code such as 
> 
>    for each Customer where balance gt 1000

The same is also used in Perl and in PPC assembler.
Probably lots of other places, as well. I like them.

--anders