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From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: more about programming style
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 16:39:56 EDT
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[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.


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Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)