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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Overloading "in" (was: disjoint ranges ?)
Date: 2000/10/19
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Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
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> One possible syntax is
>
> function "in" (Left : T; Right : T range <>) return Boolean;
>

The problem is not the syntax! It is a semantics issue.

Just like the original poster had a synatx for "disjoint ranges"...
It is much easier to invent syntax, than solve the semantics/implementation
issues.
Heck, I invent new syntax everyday: and  I get compile time errors, beacuse
of it...


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