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From: lambert@mcvax.uucp (Lambert Meertens)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Languages that allow a < x < b
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Date: Sun, 12-Oct-86 15:39:43 EDT
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>>> As a side note does any language allow the mathematically normal syntax of
>>>    IF (4 < x < 8) THEN blabla

>    This question has recurred already.  Perhaps somebody who
>    followed the previous round could post a Definitive List of
>    Languages Whose Comparisons Bind the Usual Way?

The languages that I know of that allow this are ABC (formerly called B),
BCPL, COBOL and ICON.  That Common Lisp has this too was new to me; I have
never seen a definition of that language.

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Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam; lambert@mcvax.UUCP