From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Operators Questions
Date: 1996/11/05
Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Nov5145055@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3275D478.5952@eurocontrol.fr
In article <dewar.846951467@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Jon Anthony gives as a reason for not overloading IN
>
> "It's a reserved word..."
>
> this is a bogus reason, MOD can be overloaded
That's being generous. It is one of the stupidist things I have said here...
> The real issue is that it has very special semantics, involving ranges,
> which cannot be passed as parameters, to make extensions that allow
> ranges to be passed as parameters is a big mess for little gain.
Aha....
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-29 0:00 Operators Questions Richard Irvine
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-07 0:00 ` William Frye
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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