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A comment on Set in Your Ways: Perl 6’s Setty and Baggy Types. Parent comment

Re:Set in Your Ways: Perl 6’s Setty and Baggy Types by MichaelBurge on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @10:13PM (#13128147)
> What's the non-Unicode version of "∩"? Obviously it's "(&)"!

That convention has decades of precedence in programming:

    int bitset_a = 0x01234567, bitset_b = 0x89ABCDEF;
    int bitset_c = bitset_a & bitset_b;
And at least a century in math.
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