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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: Spelt logical operators
- Message-ID: <19921217202410SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
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- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <1gqgtfINN3r8@dove.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:24:00 GMT
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- In article <1gqgtfINN3r8@dove.doc.ic.ac.uk>,
- ppch@doc.ic.ac.uk (P P C Herring) writes:
-
- >A way of doing the material conditional which would be relatively clear
- >could be
- >to make 'iff' a synonym for the keyword 'if' and have 'if' change it's
- >meaning
- >within a statement like:
- >
- > iff B if A then do; nop; end .
-
- That doesn't look all that clear to me, and making everybody spell "if"
- differently is not going to make people happy either.
-
- I'd go for "if A implies B then do; nop; end", myself.
-
- Let's not repeat C's "=" vs. "==" disaster.
-
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
-