Posted by mbstevens on 07/23/06 12:47

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:35:06 +0200, jojo wrote:

>>> * A double bar (||) separates two or more options:
>>> one or more of them must occur, in any order.
>
> Oh, my apologies. I did not find the info how to interpret this. My
> explanation for || would have been:

Their use is not 'standard' here, either. In mathmatical logic
and in most (but clearly not all) computer languages it simply
means a test for inclusive-or with the truth table:

x T F T F

y F T T F

(x || y) T T T F

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