My Kingdom For ...
Michiel Helvensteijn
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Thu Feb 21 07:55:18 PST 2008
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
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