From: Richard Brooksby <richard@harlequin.co.uk>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: else if not (Re: wishlist)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 05:34:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24412.9305260934@morris.harlqn.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bengt KLEBERG's message of Wed, 26 May 1993 02:57:52 -0400 <9305260657.AA14292@analytikerna.se>
bk@analytikerna.se (Bengt KLEBERG) wrote:
> I also think 'if not' was cute and would happily fix the (very) few
> 'else' that I have if I got it back.
The if/else `problem' has always struck me as really stupid. BCPL and
LISP get it right. Just do this:
if(<condition>) {<true clause>} else {<false clause>}
when(<condition>) {<true clause>}
Ho hum.
---
Richard Brooksby <richard@harlequin.co.uk>
ML Project / Symbolic Processing Division / Harlequin
+44 223 872522
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1993-05-26 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1993-05-26 6:57 wishlist Bengt KLEBERG
1993-05-26 9:34 ` Richard Brooksby [this message]
1993-05-26 17:52 ` else if not (Re: wishlist) Chris Siebenmann
1993-05-26 17:51 ` wishlist Chris Siebenmann
1993-05-26 19:04 ` wishlist mycroft
1993-05-26 17:24 else if not (Re: wishlist) Paul Haahr
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