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From: lacey@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
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Date: 10 Aug 89 19:37:49 GMT
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Reply-To: lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey)
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In article <516@brazos.Rice.edu>  (3383 of comp.lang.misc)
    preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
}
} And do you want it restricted to conditionals, or extended
} to all expressions/statements?

It would be a relational expression, of course, just like "a < b".

} This should all be easy; but I don't like it.  It feels "unnatural."
} I think the problem is that you want to make relational operators
} into a sort of control flow thing -- not really operators at all.
} Compare + with your version of <.
} 
} 	a+b+c     means           (a + b) + c
} but
} 	a