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[Michiel Helvensteijn]

Gregor Richards wrote:

> /me boos !in again.
> 
> Walter's argument against !in makes perfect sense, and nobody ever
> acknowledges that. 'in' is not a boolean operation, and it wouldn't be
> good for 'in' to return a pointer and '!in' to return a bool. That's
> just silly.

It's silly that 'in' does not return a bool. 'in' and '!in' make perfect
sense together as boolean operators (as in set theory).

Of course, you want to be able to get the pointer too, but I would suggest a
library function for that.

That's readability.

-- 
Michiel