Re: Why no logical XOR operator?

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From: Shankar Unni
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 21:18

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Robert Risack (rtrisack@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:

> I'm wondering why there isn't a logical XOR operator (eg. ^^)
> though there is a bitwise one (ie. ^).

Oh, please!

We've been through exactly this specific battle about once every semester
(hint) on comp.{lang,std}.c ...  Anyone care to summarize the arguments?
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