Question about checks for min and max values

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:25:27PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> > It may be useful, but I continue to assert that it is neither logical,
> > nor OK.
> >
> > The semantics of "=" are *very* well defined in the discipline of
> > programming language design, and language designers override them at
> > their peril.  Spelling it differently (ie: "eq") doesn't *really* get
> > you off the hook.
> >
> > IMHO.
> 
> Didn't Nancy once point out that in truth, filepro was around before most of 
> these other languages and there was no such standard at the time fp was 
> created, and in fact filepro's behaviour adheres to the standards of basic 
> math and logic which were worked out looooong before annnnnnny programming 
> language? And it's most current programming languages that deviate?

Perhaps she did.  But BASIC, Fortran, COBOL--and, in truth, C--all
predate any version of Profile that *had* processing, so far as I know.

And they all stole their definitions of "is equal to" from
*mathematics*, which sort of predates all of them.

By a few hundred years.

Cheers,
-- jr 'call' a
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