Guido: > But don't those APIs usually specify cmp() because > their designers (mistakenly) believed the three different outcomes > were easy to compute together and it would simplify the API? I reckon it all goes back to Fortran with its IF (X) 10,20,30 statement. Maybe the first Fortran machine had a 3-way jump instruction? Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4