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Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass... by bJGVygG7MQVF8c on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:02AM (#23758275)
That's interesting. My observation is almost the reverse — the casual English default for "or" seems to be xor, and only people with some exposure to formal logic know it can be ambiguous.

I find some reinforcement for that in almost every logic book I've ever read using the casual English parsing of "or" to introduce the notion of inclusive or. But it's been a while, I may be misremembering.

Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass... by rsynnott on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:27AM (#23758457)
Yeah, maybe I misstated; 'normal people' are more likely to read English 'or' contextually (in this case, for instance, clearly it's not meant to mean that Jews aren't people), while programmers are more likely to treat it as 'must mean exclusive or' (maybe precisely because explicit inclusive or is introduced with reference to it).
Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:31AM (#23760253)
I think it's or, which can look like xor because, e.g. (2|1)==(2^1);