What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
Steve Lamont
spl at mcnc.org
Sun Aug 6 08:01:59 AEST 1989
In article <1300 at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
@In article <5024 at alvin.mcnc.org> spl at mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
@}sort of another I often find myself wishing for an if construct that looks
@}like
@
@} if ( foo < bar < baz ) ...
@
@}Is there any reason why such a construction is not practical? If not, why has
@}no language (that I am aware of or can program in) implemented such a
@}construction? Good idea or bad idea?
@
@
@ It's in COBOL (along with everything else).
@
@ To answer your other question, COBOL is a bad idea.
That really doesn't address the question: is the mathematical inequality test
shown in my example a *bad* idea?
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spl
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