<a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html#6.11">http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html#6.11</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Dmitrii Dimandt <<a href="mailto:dmitriid@gmail.com">dmitriid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Mar 26, 2008, at 4:09 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 23 Mar 2008, at 1:35 pm, Dave Peticolas wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I keep finding myself using <= and => almost pathologically no matter<br>
>> how many times I have to go back and change them to their only<br>
>> supported<br>
>> versions. Is adding support for <= and => a possibility? I'd be<br>
>> willing<br>
>> to do the work, with some guidance.<br>
><br>
> In Prolog syntax, <= and => were reserved for arrows, and were used<br>
> heavily in that role. Strand copied Prolog and Erlang copied Strand.<br>
> I can think of lots of possible uses for arrows in Erlang, so I'd be<br>
> sorry to see them degenerate into mere alternatives for =< and >=.<br>
> In fact as someone *reading* Erlang, I would be very sorry to see any<br>
> alternatives for the standard comparison operators; there are already<br>
> confusingly many versions of equality.<br>
<br>
</div>By the way, is there a page in the manual that describes all operators<br>
in Erlang and their uses? Because I'm often confused as to how to<br>
write equality, inequality etc.<br>
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