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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 16:03:28 -0600
Subject: Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:45 PM, John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> wrote:
> In <87r3le1ht3.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
>> Wouldn't
>
>>    x < 0 or 10 < x
>
>> be even more visual?
>
> [SNIP]
>
> Another strike is that the code isn't consistent with itself; it puts the
> variable on the left in the first comparison, then swaps to the right for
> the second comparison.

And on the other hand, it consistently uses the < operator rather
than swapping to > for the second comparison.