From: Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk>
Subject: Re: What is the name of the | symbol?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:24:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t1livv$497$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <t1lf9h$qmm$1@dont-email.me>
On 25/03/2022 22:21, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:
> On 2022-03-25 20:04, Matt Jaffe wrote:
>> In using it in a named association array aggregate, its semantic 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
>> 1, 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?
>
> ARM 2.1(15/3)
> (http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/aarm12_w_tc1/html/AA-2-1.html#I1201)
> says its name in Ada is "vertical line".
>
Probably wrong, but for a Unix user since the last century, I call it 'pipe'
--
Chris
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-25 19:04 What is the name of the | symbol? Matt Jaffe
2022-03-25 19:23 ` Ben Bacarisse
2022-03-25 22:21 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-03-25 23:24 ` Chris Townley [this message]
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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2022-03-25 19:16 Matt Jaffe
2022-03-25 20:03 ` Niklas Holsti
2022-03-26 4:24 ` Paul Rubin
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