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From: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement...
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Date: 11 Aug 89 02:27:55 GMT
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In article <8606@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> 
   lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey) writes:
>In article <516@brazos.Rice.edu>  (3383 of comp.lang.misc)
>    preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
>} but
>} 	a} 			   or      a < (b < c)
>
>Just because the expression doesn't commute or associate doesn't mean
>it is not a valid relation.

But if < doesn't associate, then it doesn't make sense to write a