Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: intrinsic functions, math operators (was: i++, i+=1, i=i+1) Message-ID: <3960@lanl.gov> Date: 21 Sep 88 19:22:51 GMT References: <457@quintus.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 10 From article <457@quintus.UUCP>, by ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe): > they even work nicely as logical operators, P/\Q = P.AND.Q .) Yes I am presently designing a language in which \/ is OR and /\ is AND. It's too bad about lattice theorists using these symbols for max and min, but the majority of my target users are into latices (some of them are though - so like I said, it's too bad). J. Giles Los Alamos