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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Operators Questions
Date: 1996/11/02
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Date: 1996-11-02T00:00:00+00:00
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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.