On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:08:12 +0100, Martin Packer wrote:
>
>SAVE has, to my mind, been most invaluable. Prior to this you had to
>figure out the boolean complement of the INCLUDE= clause. With more than
>one INCLUDE= clause in a sort it became hairier, requiring De Morgan's
>Law*. :-)  SAVE made this a lot simpler and less error prone.
> 
Yet adding a NOT operator to the grammar (no one has mentioned that
there is one) would relieve programmers of the chore of rewriting complex
Boolean expressions with De Morgan's Law.

>"Card Dealer" not so much.
> 
I don't know "Card Dealer".  Does that amount to having multiple OUTFILs
using different tags?

Thanks,
gil

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