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Question marks on comparisons David Van Horn (20 Jul 2005 18:19 UTC)
Re: Question marks on comparisons John.Cowan (20 Jul 2005 19:03 UTC)

Re: Question marks on comparisons John.Cowan 20 Jul 2005 18:56 UTC

David Van Horn scripsit:

> Since this is a R-SIX-RS proposal, I'd like to suggest we finally drop the
> needless `?' at the end of the comparison procedure names.

I entirely agree: we do not write `=?' for numeric comparison, after all.
The relational operators are by implication predicates, and need no
question mark to mark them as such.

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