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From: johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: what to think of relationals and assignments
Message-ID: <206@srchtec.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 19:59:01 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.230805.19720@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> <0947@sheol.UUCP>
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In article <0947@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:

|Just as a precaution against sloppy thinking, the mutterings I use
|to remember incantations of these three sorts are
|
|           "foo  IS  bar"    (while thinking implicative)
|           "foo EQUALS bar"  (while thinking inquisitive, 
|                                     ofen preceeded by "if")
|           "foo GETS bar"    (while thinking imperitive)

 [..excerpted..]

|( I am, by the way, open to suggestions for improving these incantation
|  mnemonics. 

I don't think they need any improvement at all.  They're short, easily
comprehended, and have a one-to-one mapping with the abstract concepts.


|  .....  I'm especially unsatisfied with the "is". )

Oh, all right... how about "foo IMPLIES bar", or "foo IMPLIED-BY bar"
or even "foo IDENTITY bar" ?


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John T. Baldwin                      |  johnb%srchtec.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu
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