| From: David Van Horn (dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu) Date: Wed Oct 6 14:33:15 EDT 2010 |
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On 10/6/10 2:24 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > It would be the same as =, ie, numeric equality. It's not meant to be > some sort of generalized equality checker. It's just that we teach > our students that predicates end in ?, and that's true of symbol=?, > string=?, but not =. So shouldn't it be `number=?'? I hear students say this in class every year. `=?' seems just as much an anomaly as `='. David
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