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From: kend@data.UUCP (Ken Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: a < b < c revisited
Message-ID: <474@data.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 91 19:03:41 GMT
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sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

>In the autumn of 1989 there was some discussion on the desire
>to write a < b < c in various language with the result you
>would expect.

In general, modern Lisps (e.g. Scheme) behave as you would expect:

	(< lo-bound x hi-bound)

Of course, it is *much* easier to generalize a prefix grammar...


-Ken Dickey					kend@data.uucp