On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:35:38PM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Thursday, February 16, 2012 22:31:18 Caligo wrote: > > C++ has this and it makes code little more readable in certain cases: > > > > if(something() or foo() and bar()){ ... } > > > > instead of this in D: > > > > if(something() || foo() && bar()){ ... } > > > > > > possible enhancement request? or is there a good reason it is not in > > the language? > > Since when does C++ have "or" and "and"? C++ uses || and &&, just like C and > Java and C# and... I'm sure that there's a language somewhere whch uses "or" > and "and," but I've never used one that did.
You'll be surprised: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keywords I know I was very surprised when I saw this, a few minutes ago. :) > And I'm actually mildly shocked that anyone (at least any programmer) > would think that "or" and "and" were more readable. The fact that > operators aren't words is a _major_ boon to code readibility. [...] Well, in that case, we should replace 'in' with '∈'. Certainly, if (a in A) { ... } isn't as readable as: if (a ∈ A) { ... } Or, for those poor folks who can't easily type ∈, we can write it as (=: if (a (= A) { ... } ;-) T -- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.