Announcing E 0.8.4: The Birthday Release
Ka-Ping Yee
ping@lfw.org
Fri, 28 May 1999 10:16:21 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mark S. Miller wrote:
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> as documented in the previous release notes. And
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> x |=| y
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> meaning that x and y are equivalent in their natural partial ordering.
> This is a peer to <, <=, >=, and >. Think of 'x |=| y' as 'x <= y && x >= y'.
[#] How about <=> instead, to make more obvious their kinship?
Pipe characters don't appear in any of the other operators in
this family, and <=> is a clearer mnemonic for <= && =>.
!ping
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