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29 Jul 2024 08:16:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Other people dislike regexes too  
From: clipka
Date: 19 Jul 2012 18:14:41
Message: <500886d1$1@news.povray.org>
Am 20.07.2012 00:04, schrieb Tim Cook:
> On 2012-07-19 16:30, clipka wrote:
>> Now for the "|", this is quite a well established symbol for an "or"
>> operation in various languages (e.g. C, POV-Ray SDL, etc.). With this in
>> mind, it's a matter of seconds to realize that "s|h" might mean "'s' or
>> 'h'".
>
> And the "s|h" form is visually similar enough to the more-common
> "and/or" that even if you didn't happen to know that | meant 'or', you'd
> have a better-than-zero chance of guessing its intent.
>
> (So what is the result of &/| anyways?)

Related question: 2b|!2b?


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