5 Mar
2019
5 Mar
'19
10:13 p.m.
Rhodri James wrote:
I have to go and look in the documentation because I expect the union operator to be '+'.
Anyone raised on Pascal is likely to find + and * more natural. Pascal doesn't have bitwise operators, so it re-uses + and * for set operations. I like the economy of this arrangement -- it's not as if there's any other obvious meaning that + and * could have for sets. -- Greg