Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!spl
From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
Message-ID: <5027@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 5 Aug 89 22:01:59 GMT
References: <5024@alvin.mcnc.org> <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In article <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
@In article <5024@alvin.mcnc.org> spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
@}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.

That really doesn't address the question:  is the mathematical inequality test
shown in my example a *bad* idea?

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