Re: Overloaded logic operators

Frank Swarbrick <fswarbrick@gmail.com>
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:05:10 -0700

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From: Frank Swarbrick <fswarbrick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:05:10 -0700
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-11-110 08-11-114 08-11-123
Keywords: Cobol
Posted-Date: 28 Nov 2008 12:22:21 EST

Louis Krupp wrote:
> <snip>
>> [The A < B < C syntax has been part of Cobol for many decades. It seems
>> to work fine there. -John]
>
> Are you sure that's in COBOL? It doesn't sound familiar, and I don't
> have a COBOL manual handy.
>
> Louis
> [Actually, it's in verbose Cobolese:
>
> IF B IS GREATER THAN A AND LESS THAN C ...
>
> or
>
> IF B > A AND < C ...
>
> -John]


Interesting. I've been a Cobol programmer for twelve years and I've
never seen this type of coding, much less used it. I just tried it,
though, and it does indeed work.


Learn something new every day...


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