On Oct 15, 2004, at 5:55 PM, steve@tla.co.nz wrote:

> The statement "if(3==foo)" is written in the opposite way to how you
> would describe what the statement is doing, so the statement isn't
> immediately and inherently self documenting.

I dunno.  It's just not ENGLISH.  Mathematicians will consider
an equality statement fully reversable; "foo = 3" is precisely
identical to "3 = foo"; one of the foundations of algebra, sort of.

BillW

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