I'm just thinking out loud in this e-mail, trying to generate
alternatives.
What would happen if we had an operator that returned the number of
true values? Say we call it "boolean plus", or "bop".
To give one example: 1 bop 3 = 2
Say we're looking at: ($x > 1) bop 3 bop ($y < 0)
To get the boolean-logic definition, we'd do:
($x > 1) bop 3 bop ($y < 0) % 2
To get the natural-language one, we'd do:
($x > 1) bop 3 bop ($y < 0) == 1
Drawbacks:
- Extra typing
- bop doesn't do xor for just 2 values, so we'd still need something for
that
Or, maybe we could somehow overload the "and" operator to do "bop".
Anyway, just thinking out loud.
:)
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