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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <11401@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:11:24 GMT
References: <1989Oct21.071319.8839@utzoo.uucp> <14106@lanl.gov> <2493@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2493@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>you can use & and |.

& and | aren't really Boolean operators in the normal use of the term
in the context in which this arose; they're bitwise integer operators.

Obviously one could pour more and more operators into a language.
People already complain about C having too many..