make (a < b < c) illegal?
Frits van Bommel
fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
Thu Feb 8 01:42:16 PST 2007
Steve Horne wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:06:07 -0800, "Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website
> For Email)" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>
>>> Andrei has proposed (and I agreed) that this should be done away with in
>>> the language, i.e. comparison operators should no longer be associative.
>
>> For the record, (clears throat) let me add that I initially suggested to
>> make them associative with the right meaning, but was shot down. Making
>> the comparison operators (and that includes != and ==) nonassociative is
>> the next best thing to do.
>
> Agreed, but with an extra note - once the operators have been
> nonassociative for a while, maybe making them associative again (but
> with the right meanings) might be more palatable.
My thoughts exactly.
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