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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
Message-ID: <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 89 19:00:15 GMT
References: <5024@alvin.mcnc.org>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <5024@alvin.mcnc.org> spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
}Since I do a lot of programming that involves mathematical expressions of one
}sort of another I often find myself wishing for an if construct that looks
}like
 
}	if ( foo < bar < baz )  ...
 
}Is there any reason why such a construction is not practical?  If not, why has
}no language (that I am aware of or can program in) implemented such a
}construction?  Good idea or bad idea?
 

     It's in COBOL (along with everything else).

     To answer your other question, COBOL is a bad idea.


John Hascall
ISU COmp Center