( 2.31.New operators: 'eq', 'ne', 'last', '..' ) ?

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:20:12 +0300 (MSK), Evguenii Smogailov
<sei at sunse.jinr.ru> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

>
> Yes, i'm saying that 'eq', 'ne' are more readable then '==' '!=', '<>',
> 'next' shorter then 'continue' and '..' operator can be a good thing to 
> consider.
> 
	Yet after over 30 years of ".ne.", ".eq.", ".gt.", etc. in
FORTRAN, Fortran 90 has just added "<>", "=" (or is it "=="), ">", etc.
to permit one to get away from those awful text strings.

	The only languages I've ever seen that use a text string for
those operators are FORTRAN and VMS DCL.

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