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From: ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
Message-ID: <456@helios.prosys.se>
Date: 6 Aug 89 06:16:18 GMT
References: <5024@alvin.mcnc.org> <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Organization: Programsystem AB, Linkoping, SWEDEN
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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:
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-}	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.

It's also in BCPL (with the semantics of foo < bar && bar < baz).
BCPL isn't.

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Anders Thulin, Programsystem AB, Teknikringen 2A, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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