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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Overloading "in" (was: disjoint ranges ?)
Date: 2000/10/21
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In article <39EE6610.C91290B@acm.org>,
  Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:
> One possible syntax is
>
> function "in" (Left : T; Right : T range <>) return Boolean;
>
> Not that I'm advocating including this capability.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!"
> Monty Python & the Holy Grail


Yes, well anyone can dream up syntax like this, but figuring
out the semantics and how it fits into the rest of the language
may be a mind boggling excercise in complexity introduction :-)


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