Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!lll-winken!ubvax!igor!rutabaga!jls From: jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 22:50:56 GMT References: <9103070342.AA07462@.nextserver.cs.stthomas.edu.cs.stthomas.edu ..> <1114@tetrauk.UUCP> <271@orbit.gtephx.UUCP> Sender: news@Rational.COM Distribution: comp Lines: 24 >In article <271@orbit.gtephx.UUCP> barriost@gtephx.UUCP (Tim Barrios) writes: >> _or_ Ada >> >> (as opposed to "|| C++" :-) >You'll eat those words (bytes? :-), since it looks like X3J16 will adopt >"or" as a pseudonym for "||" as part of its internationalization effort. I'll be damned: it only took the C community 25 years to realize something that has always been intuitively obvious to language designers/trainers--that English language words are superior to cryptic symbols. NEXT they'll realize that "begin" and "end" are preferable to '{' and '}' and, with just a few more similar realizations like this, they'll turn C into something closely resembling Pascal. Sheesh. By the way, I always encourage my students to use a standard include file that #define's "or" to mean "||", "and" to mean "&&", etc etc etc. It's amazing how readable one can make C if one tries. -- ***** DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are my own. Duh. Like you'd ever be able to find a company (or, for that matter, very many people) with opinions like mine. -- "When I want your opinion, I'll read it in your entrails."