🚀 go-pugleaf

Tim Hollebeek (tim@franck.Princeton.EDU) wrote:
> Matt Austern <matt@physics.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >
> >Alternative tokens, in other words, solve the same problem that
> >trigraphs do.  Personally, though, I think that alternative 
> >tokens are a much nicer solution.  I'd much rather read an 
> >expression like "i < 0 or i >= n" than one like "i < 0 ??!??! i >= n".
> 
> Now back to the issue at hand.  Having lots of keywords makes this
> problem even worse, unless you have an editor that can highlight them
> automatically for you.  The are simply too hard to pick out by eye.
> && is much easier to see and recognize than 'and' is.

I think you misssed Matt's point. He was not saying that 'or' was better
than '||'. We was saying that if you have a character set with no |
character, then 'or' is a far better alternative than the trigraphs ??!??!
If you've never seen trigraphs before, look them up. I think the ARM has a
list. They are truly ugly things.

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