Re: chained compares was a real PITA

Maybe you shd consider posting that code as a     
protypical case in point :-)

Asokan Pichai

--- Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> It took me 2 and a half days to get chained compares
> (a < b < c)  in and
> working.  I ended up doing it three different ways
> before I got it right.
> It now evaluates with the implied ANDs, evaluates
> each term only once, and
> short-circuits properly.
> 
> I ended up utilizing prototypes to their best
> advantage.  I made an object,
> representing a compare result,  that delegated
> everything, data and methods,
> to the real compare result, to fool everything into
> thinking it was that
> object, but made one change to it so that it behaved
> differently when used
> in the next compare in the chain.  For the first
> time the prototype-based
> stuff was a real advantage.
> 
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