RE: [boost] Is allowing 'if( a < b < c )' useful?

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-29 16:30:07

At 10:44 AM 11/29/2000 -0800, Gary Powell wrote:

 >Hi,
 >  This is cute, but I won't be using it anytime soon in production code.
 >Reasons are that being non standard code its going to confuse the junior
 >members of the staff. Also if I'm not mistaken because of the
 >implementation
 >it might not do things as I would expect.

Seems to me I've seen this discussion before (although not on boost) and 
the conclusion was the same as Gary's above.

I don't know if it would be worth coming up with a named function which did 
arg1 < arg2 < arg3.  That might eliminate some of the issues.

--Beman