NSLog();

erik: do you see a page or an error?
andy: nope
erik: do you see a page xor an error?

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6 Responses to "xor"

1. | Reply andy
   Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 2:03pm #
   

   Note that the English language (and German, too, for that matter) does not differentiate between exclusive or and inclusive or. Latin does, for example: "vel" = [x]or and "aut" = [i]or.

   However, my answer should have been "yes" for both xor and or 🙂

2. | Reply Chuck Ross
   Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 2:15pm #
   

   I tried that on my wife once and she just about slapped me. 🙂

   Chuck

3. | Reply Johan Svensson
   Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 2:27pm #
   

   Heh. I talk like that a lot. It annoys normal people to no end.

   (And I just called myself "not normal")

4. | Reply Howard Finnegan
   Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 8:49pm #
   

   Wait, wait. If he's giving you a false value for the inclusive or, that's more information than he's going to give you with the exclusive or.

   Inclusive or can only be false if ~page and ~error. Exclusive or can be false if there is both a page and an error. So by giving you the false value with an inclusive or, he's also given you the value of the exclusive or. No reason to ask for it.

5. | Reply Mark J
   Posted 15 Apr 2004 at 5:50pm #
   

   My girlfriend would leave me if I pulled that. 😀

6. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 29 Jan 2009 at 12:39pm #
   

   More people posted some bad habits they've picked up from programming.