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Re: Cleaning code

lawrence.jo...@siemens.com — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:14:03 UT

Or just use the not equal operator: compare(x,y)!=gt.

Re: Cleaning code

c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:44:17 UT

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:45:23 +0100, Ben Bacarisse
I like Erlang's approach to case - identifiers are lower case,
atoms are upper case. It's ever so much cleaner.
I think I mean what you think I meant about native types, I
think.
Thanks, I will take a look.
Richard Harter, c...@tiac.net
[link], [link]

Re: Cleaning code

c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:40:16 UT

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:27:39 -0700 (PDT), Bart <b...@freeuk.com>
wrote:
No, the compare should return one of the three. To get le, ne,
or ge, do a boolean negation, e.g., in C, le is
!(compare(x,y)==gt).
Richard Harter, c...@tiac.net
[link], [link]
Save the Earth now!!

Re: Cleaning code

do_not_h...@nohavenot.cmm (Rod Pemberton) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:14:11 UT

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(picking up conversation from c.l.m, i.e., perhaps lost context...)
No offense - I'm curious, but I don't see what value this offers. With a
function like strcmp(), you wan't either a true/false result or you want a
specific one out of three result. I.e., are they equal or not? Or, how are

Re: Cleaning code

rein...@verlinde.invalid (Reinder Verlinde) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:13:54 UT

In article
<5e9bb46e-dfdb-4872-bc95-105bb 6cb1...@i76g2000hsf.googlegrou ps.com>,
For IEEE floating point, you also may be forgetting "not comparable"
and, possibly "sort-of-equal" (for comparison of +0.0 with -0.0)
Users doing interval arithmetic or using a 'stochast' type might want
even more variants (for example a return value indicating the

Re: Cleaning code

ben.use...@bsb.me.uk (Ben Bacarisse) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:45:23 UT

<snip>
Or LT, GT and EQ in Haskell. I don't see why the type needs to be
native unless, by that, you mean that any built-in types must have an
operator that produces the correct values.
The Haskell's type classes (in particular Eq and Ord) are, in my
opinion, an object lesson in how to design equality and ordering in a

Re: Cleaning code

b...@freeuk.com (Bart) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:27:39 UT

You're forgetting le and ge, which would be easier to deal with using
-1,0,1.
There's also ne, but I'm not sure how that would fit in. Perhaps a
relative compare should return the 3-element set [lt, eq, gt]. Then le
is [lt,eq], ge is [eq,gt]. 'ne' is best expressed as not [eq].

Re: Cleaning code

stapleton...@osu.edu (S James S Stapleton) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:46:13 UT

You got my idea fairly well I think. Your psudocode was definitely better
than mine.
I've been considering trying to add this idea to python. I like your concept
of an ordering type.
Thanks for the input,
-Jim Stapleton

Re: Cleaning code

c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:38:56 UT

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:34 -0400, "S James S Stapleton"
This is sort of interesting, to me anyway, but I perceive it as a
language design issue. Accordingly, I've added comp.lang.misc to
the newsgroups.
As a side note, your formatting style is bad. If the post were
any longer I wouldn't have bothered to read it.

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Re: Boa Programming Language

cwarre...@gmail.com (Curtis W) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:19:36 UT

Noted.
Thanks for the speedy reply.

Re: Boa Programming Language

cbfalco...@yahoo.com (CBFalconer) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:34:40 UT

Two faults here. One is top-posting. Please don't. The other is
trying to attach binary things to usenet messages. That is also
bad. In many cases the various news portals will simply drop the
entire mess. You can always put a link in a usenet post - if the
google anomalies (google is a terrible usenet server) annoy you,

Re: Boa Programming Language

harold.aptr...@gmail.com (Harold Aptroot) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:55:51 UT

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I don't see any indentation there..

Re: Boa Programming Language

mensana...@aol.com (Mensanator) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:13:05 UT

That's not it. They read fine in Goggle Groups. Someone is
probably using a crappy newsreader.
Significant whitespace is the greatest thing since sliced bread.