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1 point by conanite 5663 days ago | link | parent

Ditto for &

Unfortunately | is reserved in scheme for symbols with special characters, so isdir|issymlink would be hopelessly confusing

  arc> (assign |
  | 10)
  10
  arc> |
  |
  10
Maybe an arc implementation of 'read might overcome this.


1 point by Adlai 5663 days ago | link

Or we could use ^ for disjunction.

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1 point by fallintothis 5662 days ago | link

But ^ is the symbol for conjunction, i.e. "and"-ing (well, not the literal caret, but the upwards-pointing symbol -- $\wedge$ in Latex). Did you mean to suggest ^ instead of +?

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