problems on using the if and else statement and updating the data.

[J.Hilk]

@JonB apparently part of the standard since c++98
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keyword/and

[JonB]

@J-Hilk , @sierdzio
Absolutely shocking! I see from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative that there are actually 11 new reserved words for operators. Including not, and even the string compl, which I might have used as variables and would break upgrading to C++ '98.

Thinking aloud, I believe all C operators were symbols and not words, part of the charm (for right or for wrong) of the language.

With all due respect to @sierdzio's comment, which I accept & respect, I have still never seen a piece of C++ code using any of these.... [And hence would caution a beginner against adopting these.]

[C++ looks like it's trying to be a Python-wannabe ;-) ]

[jsulm]

@JonB said in problems on using the if and else statement and updating the data.:

I have still never seen a piece of C++ code using any of these

Me neither :-)

[sierdzio]

I have seen it but very, very rarely.

And hence would caution a beginner against adopting these

I'm split on this :D One one hand, && is clearly, vastly, totally the established and well-known convention practically everywhere. So using it is definitely a good idea.

But on the other hand, and is more readable and convenient. So it is also a good idea.

[JonB]

@sierdzio said in problems on using the if and else statement and updating the data.:

But on the other hand, and is more readable and convenient.

In Pascal or Python, yes. When scanning C/C++ I expect to see all operators as symbols (and not some but not others) Next C++ will be offering begin/end for {/}! [Some people used to do all this words-for-symbols via C #defines.] I give up on the modern world, it's all going to pot... ;-)

[J.Hilk]

@JonB said in problems on using the if and else statement and updating the data.:

Next C++ will be offering begin/end for {/}!

you can use

{	??<
}	??>
[	??(
]	??)
#	??=
\	??/
^	??'
|	??!
~	??-

but that was removed in c++17, :)

[JonB]

@J-Hilk

but that was removed in c++17, :)

Even better --- you start using new language constructs and then they remove them so that your code gets broken!

FWIW, I note from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative

There are alternative spellings for several operators and other tokens that use non-ISO646 characters.

So the motivation never was "clarity", it's to do with people having funny keyboards....

[SGaist]

@JonB said in problems on using the if and else statement and updating the data.:

funny keyboards

The hardware is innocent ;-P

[Kent-Dorfman]

whats next, espousing the virtues of trigraphs?

[1Manui1]

How did you do it now?