Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!spar!freeman From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: more about programming style Message-ID: <476@spar.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 16:39:56 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.476 Posted: Wed Aug 21 16:39:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:14:43 EDT References: <11457@brl-tgr.ARPA> <68@ucbcad.UUCP> Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman) Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 17 [libation to line-eater] In article <16220@watmath.UUCP> rbutterworth@watmath.UUCP (Ray Butterworth) writes: >Even simpler. Replace "<=" with "!>", and ">=" with "!<". This gives >even more consistency since you can now have "!<", "!>", and "!=". I suspect that Ray Butterworth may have had a :-) in mind when he wrote these lines, but I kind of _like_ "!<" and "!>". I guess I always think of "<=" -- for example -- as two separate tests and have to combine both of them mentally when I am figuring out what something does. (Or maybe it's brain-damage from writing too many lines of assembler.) Anyway, those might be a reasonable enhancement, and surely would be all but free in terms of additional compiler complexity. -- Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)