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From: "ISONE" <mikej@s-v.com>
Subject: Re: Coding for Obscurity
Date: 1997/12/01
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BLISS is similar.  All valid blocks of code have value or evaluate to a
value.
x = if .y eq .z then .a else .b; is a valid statement... x now containing
the value pointed to by b.  (Assuming I remember the nuances of my BLISS
syntax :)

m.s.jessop


>
>Algol 68 extended this to case-expressions like b[case i in 6, 3 out 4
>esac] := false, and allowed if then else and fi to be abbreviated to
>(, |, |, ), giving either:
>
>x := if i>0 then y else z fi;
>
>or
>
>x := ( i>0 | y | z );
>
>In CPL and later BCPL the conditional expression was also abbreviated,
>as in:
>
>x := i>0 -> y , z;
>
>This was changed to
>
>x = i>0 ? y : z;
>
>in B, so the K in K&R you mention above is actually Ken Thompson.
>This syntax was maintained unaltered in C.
>
>
>==
>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal                     ~ ~
>Amsterdam                   _____________  ~ ~
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