not operator operator..

S. Chancellor dnewsgr at mephit.kicks-ass.org
Tue Apr 4 06:05:53 PDT 2006


On 2006-04-03 22:59:59 -0700, "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> said:

> "S. Chancellor" <dnewsgr at mephit.kicks-ass.org> wrote in message 
> news:e0spgo$2jvr$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> Foo not is null
>> Foo not in Bar
> 
> Ew.
> 
>> Foo not == Bar
>> Foo not <= Bar
> 
> How about
> 
> Foo not equal to Bar
> Foo not less than or equal to Bar
> 
> While you're at it?  ;)
> 
> Terseness is both a curse and a blessing of C-style syntax...

I didn't say I wanted to program in AppleScript. :P  I hate mixing 
symbols and words.  This is terrible.  I'd rather redefine all the 
equal set and comparison operators.  The whole point of the is-operator 
is equivalence, unfortunately there's no triple bar symbol.

-S.




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