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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: re: what should be added to C
Message-ID: <788@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 14:00:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.788
Posted: Thu Jun 12 14:00:45 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Jun-86 02:23:37 EDT
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen)
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In article <1006@umd5.UUCP> zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston) writes:
>In article <8200005@ztivax.UUCP> david@ztivax.UUCP writes:
>> (condensed to "don't make := assignment")
>
>Clearly "=" should remain the assignment operator.  We should replace all
>testing with the extended syntax:
>
>...
>   switch (a:b) {
>   case <: isgreater; break;
>   case =: isequal; break;
>   case >: isless; break;
>   default: yell("this cannot happen!\n");
>   }
>...
>
I really like this! I don't propose that we use it, but I like it! It
reminds me that the only thing I miss in FORTRAN is the arithmetic IF,
when I write certain types of quick and dirty comparisons. Perhaps we
could also take inspiration from the ? triadic operator and use '$' for
a quadradic operator, return different values for <, =, >.
i.e.  n = (a$b : less() : equal() : greater());

I don't think I'm serious...
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