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To:	malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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Subject: Re: Question about redirection 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jul 92 06:13:37 EDT."
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Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 1992 12:18:27 -0400
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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The strangeness is that >[n=m] means "the thing on the right reads n
but gets m", while |[n=m] means "the thing on the right reads m but
gets n.  Backwards!  When I first saw |[n=m] I thought m and n should be
swapped so it would work more like >[n=m], or maybe the other way
around.