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Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:
> On 10/16/2024 8:59 AM, Paul A. Clayton wrote:
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> snip
>
>> I do not know of any enumeration of conditions that would be
>> commonly useful. Less than, equal to, greater than might be
>> somewhat useful for a three-way branch.
>
> That was the function of the arithmetic if statement in original 
> Fortran.  If it were more useful, it wouldn't have been taken out of the 
> language long ago.

Not so long ago, actually, it was only dropped in Fortran 2018.
I actually think that this is a bad idea, compilers will continue
to support such features, but possible interactions with other
features will no longer be properly defined.