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tlrobinson on Jan 28, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: What real life bad habits has programming given yo...

The "and/or" thing actually sort of makes sense if you take "or" to mean "xor", since (A XOR B) OR (A AND B) equals (A OR B)

smanek on Jan 28, 2009 [–]

So, slash is really 'or'?

Oh, my head.

tlrobinson on Jan 29, 2009 | [–]

    english   logic
    -------   -----
    and       AND
    or        XOR
    /         OR

Actually, since (A XOR B) and (A AND B) are mutually exclusive, (A XOR B) XOR (A AND B) also equals (A OR B), so "/" could be "XOR" too.

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