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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
Message-ID: <5689@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 15 Aug 89 15:02:08 GMT
References: <178@enea.se> <3829@bd.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <3829@bd.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
> The above is a feature of the language BCPL...

> 	if x < f() < y do ...

> might call f() once or twice, for reasons difficult to explain to a
> beginner.

Every now and then I read about something that gives me the same
sensation as discovering a hole in a baby-wipe when changing a soiled
daiper. If the language is designed so that f() can be called twice,
then that is a design flaw. Boy, I'm glad they didn't write UNIX at
Cambridge.
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