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mats cronqvist wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Joe Armstrong <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:joearms@gmail.com"><joearms@gmail.com></a> writes:
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<pre wrap=""> > I'm sick of writing my own max and min functions.
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<pre wrap="">Aren't you?
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<pre wrap="">Not really - If I didn't know Erlang or If I didn't know all the
language I's assume
that /\ meant AND and \/ meant OR. This would confuse lots of people.
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why would you think they meant AND/OR? I thought "/\" meant "lambda"
at first, but AND/OR?
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebras_canonically_defined">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebras_canonically_defined</a> says:<br>
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Typical equations in the language of Boolean algebra are <i>x</i>∧<i>y</i>
= <i>y</i>∧<i>x</i>, <i>x</i>∧<i>x</i> = <i>x</i>, <i>x</i>∧¬<i>x</i>
= <i>y</i>∧¬<i>y</i>, and <i>x</i>∧<i>y</i> = <i>x</i>.<br>
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