From: "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
Date: 2012-11-16T09:35:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:49401] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7322] Add a new operator name  #><  for bit-wise "exclusive or"


Issue #7322 has been updated by trans (Thomas Sawyer).


@matz Have you ever read about issue I have with implementing Stick b/c of this? I have no Rome to be in. I am in Carthage!

@dvaid_macmahon Well, #^^ would be better than nothing.

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Feature #7322: Add a new operator name  #><  for bit-wise "exclusive or"
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7322#change-32948

Author: alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


=begin
I propose to alias (({Fixnum#^})) and (({Bignum#^})), which stand for bit-wise "exclusive or", with a new operator name (({#><})).

Is it necessary to go along with C, Python, and Mathematica?
According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_or#Alternative_symbols ), the "^" symbol is not used for XOR outside of programming context.

Here are some examples of mathematical notation: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/XOR.html (there are also examples in the Wikipedia article).

The Unicode symbol is "���".

If eventually (({Fixnum#^})) as XOR is deprecated, this will liberate this symbol for other uses, for example for all kinds of exponential notations (for me, "a^n" usually means "the n-th power of a").
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