Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ulysses!cjc From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement... Summary: why reinvent the wheel :-) Message-ID: <11989@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 8 Aug 89 15:01:52 GMT References: <5024@alvin.mcnc.org> <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <5040@alvin.mcnc.org> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 16 In article <5040@alvin.mcnc.org>, spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont) writes: > Perhaps in ANSI C II (K&R Strike Back?? :-) ) we could add operators .<., .>., > .<=., and .>=. (big :-) here ). Wouldn't you just love to code > > ( a .<. b .<. c ) ????? Why do this when we can take advantage of another language which is an international standard and use the following: ( a .LE. b .LE. c ) ??? Insert biggest smiley you ever saw here... -- Name: Christopher J. Calabrese Brain loaned to: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ att!ulysses!cjc cjc@ulysses.att.com Obligatory Quote: ``Anyone who would tell you that would also try and sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.''