https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5238 I guess many people want to use not, and, or as logical operator keyword. I prefer if A and not B foo() end rather than if A && !B foo() end because above one is more easy to read and similar to native english. Why julia chooses below exclu…

There is an extensive discussion in that linked issue about the reasons why

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[image] rmsmsgood: I guess many people want to use not , and , or as logical operator keyword. I prefer I wouldn’t prefer it, as I like &&,||,! more than words (perhaps because of C,C++,… history of mine). But as an option I would not be against it. (I am triggered whenever I read something …

Heh, one could use Unicode to implement ∧ ∨ ¬ ⊕ ⊻ ⊼ ⊽ although I don’t think that helps readability.

Sure, there are people wouldn’t prefer words. But interesting, i don’t like those symbols by the same reason. In my history, C++ → R → python → fortran → julia (I’m in data/math/statistics). I was surprised about that even fortran implemented .OR., .AND., .NOT. and i feel comfortable with fortran mo…

But thank you! I have a question, do they short-circuit evaluate?

[image] rmsmsgood: Sure, there are people wouldn’t prefer words. This things are more or less issues of taste. For programming language I prefer stringency instead of options. What I mean is, in most general terms, I would prefer a single possible way to do something instead of multiple (but…

[image] rmsmsgood: But thank you! I have a question, do they short-circuit evaluate? Yes.

`not`, `and`, `or` as logical operator keyword

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simeonschaub February 7, 2022, 5:59am 3

might also be relevant here.

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`not`, `and`, `or` as logical operator keyword

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