Timeline for BASIC-PLUS inline operators, do they actually make sense?
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| May 14, 2018 at 15:39 | comment | added | Tommy | @MauryMarkowitz it's like anything else; the overriding rule is always to try to say what you're trying to say in as directly a manner as possible. This is one more option; in a lot of cases it is more expressive, so preferable. But I was mainly hoping to add to the discussion by pointing out that it wasn't a developmental dead end. Modern languages provide much the same thing. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 15:27 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | Indeed, it was the apparent stylistic advantages that led me to this question. But as mannaggia points out above, there is a flip side to consider. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 15:16 | history | answered | Tommy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |