between and among: worth Phobosization?

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/16/2013 10:47 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 20:38:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> bool between(T, U1, U2)(T v, U1 lo, U2 hi)
>> {
>>     return v >= lo && v <= hi;
>> }
>>
>
> I must say that:
>
>      if (val.between(3, 10))
>
> sure is a lot easier to understand at a glance than:
>
>      if (val >= 3 && val <= 10)
> ...

if (3 <= val && val <= 10)

is similarly easy to understand at a glance as the former. (Its drawback 
compared to that is that often a temporary variable will be required to 
be introduced in order to avoid recomputation.)