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- From: brian@dsm.fordham.edu (Brian Downing)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Seperation of Church and Elevators
- Message-ID: <BRIAN.92Nov22101539@dsm.dsm.fordham.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:15:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: dsm.BRIAN.92Nov22101539
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- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math
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- In-Reply-To: bpirie@bpecomm.pinetree.org's message of Fri, 20 Nov 92 07:57:48 EST
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- I was thinking along similar lines with one minor modification.
- Because the simple '+' and '-' may easily be misinterpreted as
- arithmetic operators I would like to suggest the '++' and '--'
- increment and decrement operators from C. They could easily become
- new international symbols for incrementing by one or decrementing by
- one. The nice thing is that these could work just like they do C.
- When referring to an ordinal or enumerated data type they would
- represent adding or subtracting by one element of that type.
- i.e. ... -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 ...
- [ 'a' 'b' 'c'... (naturally watching for boundaries)
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- When used in a linked list or hypercard stack it would increment a
- pointer by the correct size to point to the next item in the list
- or on the stack.
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- Brian...
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- brian downing@->fordham university, nyc ny
- brian@dsm.fordham.edu bdowning@mary.fordham.edu
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