[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 218 (sets); moving set.py to Lib

[Greg Ewing]

"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Re: PEP 218 (sets):

> Is it + for disjunction and juxtaposition for conjunction, or the other
> way around?

+ is 'or' and juxtaposition (or sometimes a dot) is 'and'
(I prefer those words because they're shorter than
'disjunction' and 'conjunction', and I can remember which
is which:-).

These are probably where Wirth got the idea of using
+ and * from in Pascal -- 'or' is considered the
'addition' operator in boolean algebra, and 'and'
the 'multiplication' operator. (Although the two are
actually completely symmetrical in their algebraic
properties, so it's an arbitrary choice.)

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