Re: Pronouns in programming language?

nr@labrador.eecs.harvard.edu (Norman Ramsey)
6 Mar 2000 00:28:41 -0500

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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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