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>>>>> "IM" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

IM> ... But if someone has a strong math 
IM> background (Junio?) then the "1 < x < 5" syntax could be the natural 
IM> thing he got used to.

I was trained by somebody with a strong math background, but I
suspect he insisted that ordering not from math reasons.  The
reason given to me was "visual ordering".

I suck at math myself.  I even get confused when people do

    return !!some_function();