Re: Pronouns in programming language?

pwagle@my-deja.com writes:


> 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.


Common Lisp does exactly that.


Your example would become:


(< 1 x 10)


As usual, fully parenthesised prefix notation kills the parsing problem.


About the only catch for beginners are the values of


(= 1) and (/= 1).

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