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Re: xor

• Posted by "Carl R. White" <C.R.White at SCM.BRAD.AC.UK> Oct 29, 1998
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Robert Craig wrote:

> I'll add an xor keyword for the next release.
> Symmetry and completeness seem to demand it.

> I don't expect that xor will be used much.
> I guess this has something to do with the nature of
> the logic, and something to do with our lack of a
> common word for "xor" in English and other human languages.

But we do. We use "or" to mean "xor" in English. e.g.:

"You may have the Ice-Cream _or_ the Candy-Floss."

This quite obviously means "one _or_ the other, but not both".
Which is the definition for "xor"... :)

What we don't have is an equivalent for the logical "or"!

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