Newcomer struggling with tutorial

Gerrit Holl gerrit at nl.linux.org
Mon Oct 6 05:54:08 EDT 2003


CPK Smithies wrote:
> Perhaps some people enjoy mastering quirks like these. I just see it as a 
> source of confusion and errors. What's so terrible about having to type "(a 
> < b) && (b == c)" if that's what is intended? Is it really worth 
> sacrificing a logical grammar for the sake of a few keystrokes? So it's not 
> a bug in implementation that I'm talking about. It's a bug in the design.

It is analogous to a<b<c being equivalent to a<b and b<c. I find it logical
and don't expect different, because they have equal priority.

Gerrit.

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