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From:	Richard Brooksby <richard@harlequin.co.uk>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 1993 05:34:08 -0400
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To:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
In-Reply-To: Bengt KLEBERG's message of Wed, 26 May 1993 02:57:52 -0400 <9305260657.AA14292@analytikerna.se>
Subject: else if not (Re: wishlist)

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.
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Richard Brooksby <richard@harlequin.co.uk>
ML Project / Symbolic Processing Division / Harlequin
+44 223 872522