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From:
Piers Cawley
Date:
October 10, 2001 13:45
Subject:
Re: More on operators
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HellyerP <HellyerP@cpw.co.uk> writes:

> > :Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> writes:
> > :
> > :> 	If we are in the mood of changing operators, && can be /\
> > :> and || can be \/. At least, mathematicians will like it!
> > :
> > :You are, of course, joking. 
> > 
> 	Given Damian's sigma operator in E3, there is no need to resort to
> the ascii approximations...

Especially when *both* the characters used to make up these
'composite' operators have special meanings. Quite how you'd
distinguish between /\ and the start of a pattern match is left as an
exercise for the suitably insane reader.

-- 
Piers

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