On 20 Jun 2001 12:52:20 -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:38:14PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> > The Perl syntax to match the VB loop above is:
> >
> > while ($a = 5 or $b = 2) {
> > blah blah blah;
> > }
>
> Chas, of course, meant ==, not =, as in:
>
> while ($a == 5 or $b == 2) {
> ...
> }
>
> VB has some weird things going on with = as assignment and = as comparison,
> but = is indeed a comparison operator.
>
Oh dear god, please tell me I didn't type that! Hey, someone must have
come in while I was at lunch and used my computer to send out that
message, yeah, yeah that's the ticket.
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