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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
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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