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| Re: Pronouns in programming language? cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com (Charles E. Bortle, Jr.) (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com (Charles E. Bortle, Jr.) (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? mal@bewoner.dma.be (Lieven Marchand) (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? carles.blas@uab.es (Carles Blas Anglada) (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? zorn@microsoft.com (Ben Zorn) (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? nr@labrador.eecs.harvard.edu (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? neitzel@gaertner.de (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? joachim.durchholz@halstenbach.com.or.de (Joachim Durchholz) (2000-03-06) |
| Re: Pronouns in programming language? ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk (2000-03-11) |
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| From: | nr@labrador.eecs.harvard.edu (Norman Ramsey) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 6 Mar 2000 00:28:41 -0500 |
| Organization: | Harvard University |
| References: | 00-02-149 00-02-154 |
| Keywords: | syntax, design |
<pwagle@my-deja.com> wrote:
>I've also heard that some languages have experimented with permitting
>n-ary comparisons (eg, "1 < x < 10" instead of "x > 1 && x < 10", but
>they always conclude that its a mistake. Hard to understand code gets
>produced, and I think there's a parsing problem, but I forget what.
Icon does this beautifully, but its model of Booleans is
success/failure, not true/false. www.cs.arizona.edu/icon
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