<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">me too....<div><br><div><div>On Jul 19, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Edwin Fine wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I am amazed that the shell could have "sort of" worked and got fixed by a reinstall. Well, live and learn. Good luck with your learning.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Sean Allen <<a href="mailto:sean@monkeysnatchbanana.com">sean@monkeysnatchbanana.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br> On Jul 19, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Edwin Fine wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sean,<br> <br> I think it's historical. "orelse" and "andalso" were added to the language later. I would also be inclined to use the short-circuit ones, but I don't find myself writing a lot of code that uses "and" and "or" anyway. I might have written your example as<br> <br> f(X) when X == 0; 1/X < 2 -><br> <br> which gets evaluated from left to right.<br> </blockquote> <br></div> that makes sense thanks.<br> <br> so, something got fubar in the version i had installed.... and suddenly things make much more sense.<br> i'll upgrade if i move past the learning point or hit something that doesnt work right again.<br> <br> thanks for the help and info.<br> sorry that a large chunk of it was the result of a bad erlang shell.<br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.<br> John F. Kennedy 35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963) </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>