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On 10/1/2015 12:59 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>:
>
>> I wasn't commenting directly to the "ask not..." quote; I was
>> referring upthread to the choice between
>>
>>      not 0 <= x <= 10
>>
>> and
>>
>>      x < 0 or x > 10
>>
>> Both are of course understandable, but in my opinion, the latter one
>> takes slightly less effort to grok.
>
> Wouldn't
>
>     x < 0 or 10 < x
>
> be even more visual?

Well, I had to parse that one twice to grok it.

Emile