On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:56:05 -0600, David Fontaine wrote:
>because you don't need to read ahead or look at indentation to see that you're
>limiting a to an interval (0,10) (or is that [0,10]?). Same goes for a

(0,10)

>non-contigous set:
>  #if((a>0 & a<10) | a>20 | a=15)
>Imagine that coded as individual tests!

I think you might be missing the important point here: we currently have and
and or operators, but they don't short-circuit.  The result is that you
can't say things like

#if ( a != 0 and 5/a > 2 )

because the parser will puke on 5/a if a really is zero.

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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