On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, spir <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why not '!' for not, instead of '~'? I mean, '!' is used in logic, in many 
> languages and even in python (!=). On the other hand, I had never encountered 
> '~' meaning not.

Although ! is indeed usual in computer languages, I disagree when you
say it is used in logic. There to my knowledge the standard is ¬, with
~ being used if one wants to remain within easily-accessible character
sets.


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André Engels, [email protected]
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