Re: More on RPG style

Dennis Lovelady wrote:

I have no problem with C syntax (other than things like ~ exclusive or, for
heaven's sake). I do wonder, though, why IBM chose the ¬ not symbol for CL.
Not being a mathematician, I had never seen that symbol before, and have
never used it anywhere else.

I've never seen it outside of PL/I (and, it seems, CL). And oh, yes: I used the IBM negation sign in the score of an "easy harpsichord" arrangement I wrote a few years ago, of the old English folk tune, "The Ash Grove"

http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl/AshGrove.pdf

If you're morbidly curious enough to actually look at it, go to the last page, with the "figured Roman" chord symbols, and look at the V-7 chords. I used the negation sign to indicate explicit omission of the fifth, since nobody I knew had ever heard of a convention in figured Roman (or figured bass) for explicitly indicating the omission of a note in a chord.

Of course, when you develop fluency in a number of programming languages, you learn to deal with different conventions.

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JHHL