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From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
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Subject: Re: IF KICK-BACK GREATER THAN 10 AND LESS THAN 100 THEN ...
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 09:53:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 09:53:30 1984
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You can also do this in BCPL. If my memory is correct, you
can even go on with it, so write something like
IF 0 < LWB <= UPB <= 100 THEN ....

This is even more powerful than the COBOL feature, since
COBOL always uses the same expression on the lefthandside
of the condition.
-- 
	Jack Jansen, {seismo|philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack
	or				       ...!vu44!htsa!jack
  "Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure"
			Oscar Wilde, 1894.
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			Jack Jansen, 1984.