condition convention 'if (10 == j)...'

[Chris Shaw]

This argument looks like the kind of nonsense one hears when infix versus 
postfix notation is discussed. Like when in high school, everyone has a
Texas Instruments calculator, and the rich kid in the class brings in a 
Hewlett-Packard for the first time. You get to hear such delightful garbage as:

	'But Reverse Polish isn't NATURAL !!'

similarly with

	'But  "if( 10 == j )"  isn't NATURAL !!'

Come on, folks, surely we are not mindless drones, afraid to think for our
supper ?  The (10==j) idiom is an effective error-catching heuristic, and
its inventor should be viewed with admiration. Anyone who seriously has 
trouble with this minor variation shouldn't be in this business, or should
at least take a more professional attitude.

Chris Shaw    watmath!watmum!cdshaw
University of Waterloo