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- From: pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: applying or
- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:06:20
- Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
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- In-reply-to: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 25 Dec 1992 23:50:39 GMT
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- In article <1hg6ofINN7ev@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
- Of course, you *could* do this sort of computation even if AND and OR were
- ordinary procedures, by avoiding AND and OR and using IF instead in such
- cases. But this way is deemed more aesthetically pleasing.
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- I've never liked the way AND and OR are defined. I don't claim that
- they are not convinient, I'm just not very fond of control structures
- posing themselves as logic operators to the unwary.
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- Pertti Kellom\"aki (TeX format) # These opinions are mine,
- Tampere Univ. of TeXnology # ALL MINE !
- Software Systems Lab # (but go ahead and use them, if you like)
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