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

[Stephen Coursen]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:50:00 +0300 (MSK), Evguenii Smogailov
<sei at sunse.jinr.ru> wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> > Generally for improving readability,
>> > (and Perl compatibility).
>> 
>> oh, come on.  since when is "Perl compatibility" a
>> guiding principle for Python's design?
>
>Well, i mean all that 1 million Perl programmers that would like to learn 
>Python someday:)
>
>But the MAIN reason is READABILITY
>
When did this become a trait of Perl?  Gods, what's so hard about knowing
that == is the equality operator?

Steve
>evguenii
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