Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Implicit testing of 0 (was: == vs =)
Message-ID: <4438@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 19:27:17 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <3208@bunker.UUCP> <3484@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <3484@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704A-Liber,N.) writes:
>This is one of the few drawbacks of implicit testing (languages with many side
>effects such as Lisp and Icon suffer from this).

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Icon syntax in the context.

=
==
===
:=
:==
:==:
+==
++==

Those are from memory, but doesn't it get about that unwieldy?

John
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