Title
Use of && as requirement separator
Status
concepts
Section
_N2914_.14.11.1 [temp.req]
Submitter
US

Created on 2009-03-03.00:00:00 last changed 179 months ago

Messages

Date: 2009-03-03.00:00:00
N2800 comment USĀ 60

The use of && as the separator for a list of requirements has shown itself to be a serious teachability problem. The mental model behind && treats concepts as simple predicates, which ignores the role of concepts in type-checking templates. The more programmers read into the && (and especially try to fake || with && and !), the harder it is for them to understand the role of concept maps. Simply changing the separator to , would eliminate a significant source of confusion.

History
Date User Action Args
2009-08-03 00:00:00adminsetstatus: open -> concepts
2009-03-03 00:00:00admincreate