On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 09:58 AM, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
: > Does xor really need the punctuation? Does xor really need to be a
: > primitive?
:
: Though bitwise xor is seldom used for most people, other versions are
: likely to be more frequent: the 'superpositional' flavor, for example,
: is likely to have significant meaning. Same with 'none', I expect.
:
: & | \ !
: all any one none
:
: So supporting a punctuation for xor-like operations is more useful than
: it might at first appear.
Well, I don't believe in "none" since it's really easy to say !any(), but
exclusive-or can certainly use the punctuation. Or, actually, I'm currently
thinking, non-punctuation. I kept thinking to myself that it's a shame
that x is already taken, and then I looked crosseyed at the // vs \\
proposals, and I realized we have a superposition of / and \ that is
spelled "X". :-)
So at the moment I'm thinking we have
$a X $b # super xor
$a XX $b # logical high precedence xor
$a X= $b # assignment xor
$a +X $b # intbits xor
$a ~X $b # strbits xor
$a ^XX $b # hyper xor
$a xor $b # low precedence xor
+X $a # int complement
~X $a # str complement
Larry
