Re: what most every language is missing :-)

[Pascal Costanza <address@hidden>]

Edward O'Connor wrote:
>>How about adding a "might-equal" operator?
> 
> 
> This joke immediately reminded me of ``The Best of Intentions: EQUAL
> Rights--and Wrongs--in Lisp'' by Kent Pitman (available on the web at
> http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html). 

Another paper in this spirit is "Copying and Comparing: Problems and 
Solutions" by Peter Grogono and Markku Sakkinen 
(http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/grogono00copying.html). All language 
designers should read this IMHO.


Pascal

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