From: chneukirchen@gmail.com (Christian Neukirchen)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:48:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1mgi8d7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160711123430.GD7815@mercury.ccil.org> (John Cowan's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:34:30 -0400")
John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> writes:
> Tony Finch scripsit:
>
>> I am failing to remember where I have seen /\ and \/ used in the wild.
>
> I don't think anyone ever has used them; they were just a suggestion by
> Bemer which induced him to lobby for \ in ASCII-63.
It's used now in logic languages like Prolog and proof assistants like
Coq or TLA+.
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen at gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-14 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-10 0:52 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-10 1:51 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 12:09 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 12:34 ` John Cowan
2016-07-14 14:48 ` Christian Neukirchen [this message]
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2016-07-09 13:22 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-09 15:59 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 6:44 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-07-10 14:11 ` Nemo
2016-07-10 20:23 ` pete
2016-07-08 14:52 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Clem Cole
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03 ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38 ` [TUHS] Slashes Christian Neukirchen
2016-07-08 11:25 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 18:26 ` [TUHS] Slashes Adam Sampson
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