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

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-29 23:44:19

It's a shame that Ritchey, Thompson, and Kernighan removed it from the 
translation from BCPL to C.  I guess they couldn't figure out how to write 
the compiler.

At Wednesday 00/11/29 14:30, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>

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