Re: Feature suggestion: "ifcmp" convenience control statement

John Scott on Sun, 19 Jul 2020 23:19:56 +0200

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Re: Feature suggestion: "ifcmp" convenience control statement

To: pari-users@pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: "ifcmp" convenience control statement
From: John Scott <jscott@posteo.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:19:47 -0400
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On Sunday, July 19, 2020 5:00:23 PM EDT Hans L wrote:
> Does anyone else think this would be a useful addition to the language?
I don't know that it would be useful for me personally, but that is an 
interesting idea. If GP were to have a switch or case-style statement, one 
could equivalently compute abs(x-y) and specify the -1, 0, and 1 cases.

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