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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Simple if-exercises
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:29:34 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 06:29:59 +0000, Volker Borchert wrote:

> Jeff Higgins wrote:
> 
>> Why don't we have a Quinary operator?
>> x ? y LT : EQ : GT
> 
> One of those occasions where "newer" is not "better".
> 
> I _do_ miss FORTRAN's three-way IF statement.

It would be more in the style of Java to extend the switch statement's 
syntax by adding pseudo constants corresponding to <, == and > so you 
could write something like:

switch(arithmetic expression)
{
  case LT: ....; break;
  case EQ: ....; break;
  case GT: ....; break;
  default: ...; break;
}

As a bonus, you'd also get the equivalent of LE and GE without needing 
any additional syntactic extensions.
  

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