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Re: in1To10

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From	Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject	Re: in1To10
Date	Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:02:56 -0400
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On 8/9/2014 4:56 PM, Marcel Mueller wrote:
> On 09.08.14 21.12, cdalten@gmail.com wrote:
>> Now upon googling the solutions, I saw some people use
>> if(outsideMode == false)
>> if(outsideMode == true)
>>
>> instead of using if(outsideMode == false)/else(outsideMode == true).
>>
>> Would both catch all the cases? If not, which one would?
>
> There is almost always more than one solution for a given problem.
> Since booleans can only be true or false the second if (after else) is
> superfluous. And you also could simply write
>    return (n >= 1 && n <= 10) ^ outsideMode;
>
> The solutions might differ in execution speed or code length and style
> but as long this is not part of the task it makes no difference.

     Unfortunately, this cleaned-up version does not solve the
problem as specified.  (Hint: What is `in1To10(1,true)'?)

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in1To10 cdalten@gmail.com - 2014-08-09 12:12 -0700
  Re: in1To10 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-09 15:58 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 16:13 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2014-08-09 22:56 +0200
    Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 17:02 -0400
      Re: in1To10 Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2014-08-09 23:43 +0200
        Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 19:49 -0400
        Re: in1To10 Torsten Kirschner <torsten@kirschner.no> - 2014-08-10 16:59 +0200
          Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 11:33 -0400
            Re: in1To10 Torsten Kirschner <torsten@kirschner.no> - 2014-08-11 22:23 +0200
            Re: in1To10 Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-08-12 11:10 -0700
              Re: in1To10 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-19 16:54 -0400
                Re: in1To10 Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-08-20 10:36 -0700
            Re: in1To10 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-19 16:53 -0400
  Re: in1To10 cdalten@gmail.com - 2014-08-09 18:35 -0700
    Re: in1To10 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-09 22:13 -0400
    Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-09 22:23 -0400
    Re: in1To10 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-10 12:07 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-10 00:29 -0500
  Re: in1To10 "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-10 13:53 +0100
    Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 09:48 -0400
      Re: in1To10 "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-10 15:01 +0100
        Re: in1To10 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 10:32 -0400
          Re: in1To10 "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-08-10 15:53 +0100
  Re: in1To10 lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-08-10 14:07 +0100
  Re: in1To10, a simple test plan lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-08-10 16:43 +0100
    Re: in1To10, a simple test plan Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 12:01 -0400
      Re: in1To10, a simple test plan lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-08-10 17:41 +0100
      Re: in1To10, a simple test plan Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-19 16:57 -0400
  Re: in1To10 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-08-12 02:59 -0700

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