From: Matt Jaffe <matt.jaffe@gmail.com>
Subject: What is the name of the | symbol?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 12:16:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c89d912-0672-4e86-b4f3-7893ef0e7183n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In using it in a named association array aggregate, its semantics are "and" --- e.g., some_1D_array := (1 | 3 | 7 => 5, others => 10) sets elements 1 and 3 and 7 to the value 5. In a case statement, its semantics are "or" --- e.g. when 1 | 3 | 7 => ... any of the values 1or 3, or 7 for the case expression will select the ... code for execution. Is there a single name for that symbol (the | ) that seems to have different semantics depending on context?
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2022-03-25 19:16 Matt Jaffe [this message]
2022-03-25 20:03 ` What is the name of the | symbol? Niklas Holsti
2022-03-26 4:24 ` Paul Rubin
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2022-03-25 19:04 Matt Jaffe
2022-03-25 19:23 ` Ben Bacarisse
2022-03-25 22:21 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-03-25 23:24 ` Chris Townley
2022-03-26 0:58 ` Luke A. Guest
2022-03-26 2:01 ` Chris Townley
2022-03-27 0:38 ` Stephen Leake
2022-03-27 19:01 ` Matt Jaffe
2022-03-27 18:57 ` Matt Jaffe
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