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And Rosta scripsit:
> As I said in one of my messages yesterday, fixed arity means no
I think that is true only if:
a) you can distinguish operators and operands lexically
b) you suffix each operand with the bracket, treating it as
a zero-arity operator
> Ah, good thinking. Yes: "husband/boyfriend" etc.
But does anyone pronounce this "husband boyfriend"? I think it's just a
way of writing "husband or boyfriend", and I'd automatically pronounce
it that way.
"And/or", however, meaning "and or or", is in fact an example of this pattern.
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