On 5/23/07, Sander van Dijk <a.h.vandijk_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As for test being a language contruct: is isn't, or at least wasn't
> originally. "if" checks what the return value of the call following it
> is; in case it is zero, it does something, otherwise it does something
> else.
Of course. But I believe it was a mistake that is now fixed.
It just doesn't make sense to call external program for every stupid
logical/arithmetic test. These things belong naturally into any language --
shell or full-blown.
Received on Wed May 23 2007 - 18:35:22 UTC
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