From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Operators Questions
Date: 1996/11/02
Date: 1996-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.846951467@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.96Oct31145913@alexandria
Jon Anthony gives as a reason for not overloading IN
"It's a reserved word..."
this is a bogus reason, MOD can be overloaded
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.
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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 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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