Re: It would be nice if I could do: "200502" <= a <="200601" instead of "200502" <= a and a <="200601"

["Ben Sunshine-Hill" <sneftel@...>]

On 5/23/06, Mildred <ml.mildred593@online.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2006 12:11:42 -0400 Vineet Jain wrote:
> > Am in the process of embedding python in Lua:
> >
> > I cannot do the following in Lua: "200502" <= a <="200601"
> > I get the following error: cannot concatenate boolean to string. So I
> > have to type the above as:
> >
> > "200502" <= a and a <="200601"
>
> Why not something like :
>
>         a in "200502", "200601"
>
> The main problen is you can't make the difference between < (less
> than) and <= (less or equal)

Well, heck! Why not just use standard mathematical notation?

a in ("200502", "200601"]

(Answer: Because special-case syntax for every little thing makes a
language complicated, ambiguous, and unreadable.)