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To be fair, I've never seen it used in prose like that, and had trouble understanding your comment at first. I did university boolean logic 30 years ago and ha
by mkl 2y ago
To be fair, I've never seen it used in prose like that, and had trouble understanding your comment at first. I did university boolean logic 30 years ago and have been on the internet in programming communities nearly as long.
- defrost 2y agoSure, different groups have different conventions. I've been commenting on internet forums, threads, and groups since pre WWW Usenet, using | as OR (though more often as { A | B | C }, seen others use the same convention and this is the very first time anyone has ever claimed it as a unique quirk.
- mkl 2y agoWith braces or brackets it would have been immediately clear; I have seen that version.
- Novosell 2y agoConsider this the second time. ¿English motherfucker, do you write it?
- 082349872349872 2y agoI appreciate | as OR because (like its non-ascii cousin ∨) it uses an lr-symmetric glyph to denote a commutative operation. EDIT: Backus uses the asymmetric overbarred "or" in 1959, but by 1963 the | we know and love has already taken its place (that ASCII standardisation didn't start until 1961 may have something to do with this?) https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/Backus-Syntax_and_Semantics_of_Proposed_IAL.pdf https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/Ba... https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/366193.366201 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/366193.366201