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From: v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: Simple if-exercises
Date: 3 Apr 2015 18:05:24 GMT
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Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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)
       sgn(                 )
> {
>   case LT: ....; break;
         -1
>   case EQ: ....; break;
          0
>   case GT: ....; break;
         +1
>   default: ...; break;
> }

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