Guido van Rossum wrote:
I guess everybody's high school math(s) class was different. I don't ever recall seeing + and * for boolean OR/AND; we used ∧ and ∨.
Boolean algebra was only touched on briefly in my high school years. I can't remember exactly what notation was used, but it definitely wasn't ∧ and ∨ -- I didn't encounter those until much later. However, I've definitely seen texts on boolean alegbra in relation to logic circuits that write 'A and B' as 'AB', and 'A or B' as 'A + B'. (And also use an overbar for negation instead of the mathematical ¬). Maybe it depends on whether you're a mathematician or an engineer? The multiplication-addition notation seems a lot more readable when you have a complicated boolean expression, so I can imagine it being favoured by pragmatic engineering type people. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
