Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter 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: <5690@ficc.uu.net> Date: 15 Aug 89 15:07:35 GMT References: <178@enea.se> <3829@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <8620@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <8620@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, lacey@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey) writes: > So far, Lisp, Icon, and BCPL have all tried and failed to meet the challenge > (Icon came PDClose). Any more takers? The Hydril Smart RTU programming language. a < b < c Evaluated TRUE if a < b && b < c, FALSE otherwise. No expression is evaluated more than once. If a >= b, then c is not evaluated at all (lazy evaluation). Any sequence of expressions followed by relational operators were valid. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"