From: gotoken@...
Date: 2018-04-30T06:36:59+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:86771] [Ruby trunk Feature#14724] chains of inequations

Issue #14724 has been reported by gotoken (Kentaro Goto).

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Feature #14724: chains of inequations
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14724

* Author: gotoken (Kentaro Goto)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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In mathematics, chain of inequations is a shorthand notation for the conjunction of several inequations involving common expressions. 

For example, `a < b <= c` for `a < b && b <= c`

Chain notation makes code clearer, in particular, long common expression cases will be so. E.g., 

```
cur.to_i - 2 <= timeval.tv_sec <= cur.to_i
```

is easier to read than

```
cur.to_i - 2 <= timeval.tv_sec && timeval.tv_sec <= cur.to_i
```

because in the latter case we have to verify whether `timeval.tv_sec` is common or not by eyes.

Current syntax allows but redefining builtin methods are considered not practical. So here I request as a new syntax for the chains.


### Use cases (applicable conjunctions)

lib/matrix.rb:
```ruby
    unless 0 <= column && column < column_count
```

lib/time.rb documents:
```ruby
    # block.  For example:
    #
    #     Time.parse(...) {|y| 0 <= y && y < 100 ? (y >= 69 ? y + 1900 : y + 2000) : y}
```

spec/ruby/optional/capi/bignum_spec.rb:
```ruby
  raise "Bignum#coerce returned Fixnum" if fixnum_min <= n && n <= fixnum_max
```

test/fiddle/test_import.rb:
```ruby
        assert(cur.to_i - 2 <= timeval.tv_sec && timeval.tv_sec <= cur.to_i)
```

tool/jisx0208.rb:
```ruby
        unless 0x8140 <= sjis && sjis <= 0xFCFC
```




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