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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: if statements
Date: 2000/11/08
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"John English" <je@bton.ac.uk> wrote in message
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: >   "Exercise 4.1: Write an if statement which will swap the values of
: >    variables A and B if necessary so that the smaller value ends up in
: >    A and the larger value ends up in B."

: The only problem with your solution is that the question asks for
: a bare statement; your solution would be embedded inside a block,
: so it would fail to compile without some extra work...

If the "question" is the one above, I don't see the word "bare" (or
"fragment", etc.) anywhere. You asked for an if statement, I gave you an if
statement. The fact that I put it in a complete (and more expressive)
solution should be worth extra credit, not a failing grade!

P.S. I always like the Bohr story, no matter how many times I hear it:

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometr.htm

P.P.S. Notice that I didn't even comment before on the difficulties in
putting the smaller value in A (via if statement or otherwise) if A = B....