Re: [BLACKBOX] Re [BLACKBOX] Seasons Greetings from Linuxland

From: [at]} <Chris>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:33:28 +1030

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 December 2010 9:15 PM
> To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: Re: [BLACKBOX] Re [BLACKBOX] Seasons Greetings from Linuxland
>
> Hiya
>
> Seasons Greeting !
>
> Personally I much prefer the forms:
>
> b := ~a
> &
> RETURN BooleanExpresssion ()
>
> to the long-winded alternatives mentioned.
>
>
> On the other hand I dislike (*both*) examples below; what is
> wrong with the simple
>
> WriteInt (ABS (a - b)) ?
>

Nothing!!! That is how I would have written it and was wondering exactly the
same myself! It just seems to be a good real life example of the result of
muddled thinking I was trying to illustrate (NOTE: in Pascal it would be
WriteLn not WriteInt).

Regards,
Chris

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