Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnewsc!nevin1 From: nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement... Message-ID: <2452@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Date: 16 Aug 89 01:22:40 GMT References: <178@enea.se> <3829@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <5689@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 In article <5689@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: |In article <3829@bd.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: |> if x < f() < y do ... |> might call f() once or twice, for reasons difficult to explain to a |> beginner. |If the language is designed so that f() can be called twice, |then that is a design flaw. But is f() even called once?? Suppose x=1 and y=0. I do the x