David Chase <chase@centerline.com> writes:

>dougm@rice.edu (Doug Moore) writes:
>
>> While I agree that it is a common and basically pointless question, I
>> can't believe that a message which is nothing but a flame made it past
>> moderation.
>
>This is probably pointless as well, but a detailed rationale (which, last
>I heard, was not in the plans for C++) could answer these questions as
>well.  Is there a rationale for why there is no rationale?

I think the rationale is simply lack of manpower and/or enthusiasm for
the task - no-one volunteered to do the necessary work to produce a
rationale.

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In article <41bf4j$d70@larry.rice.edu>, dougm@rice.edu (Doug Moore) writes:

> While I agree that it is a common and basically pointless question, I
> can't believe that a message which is nothing but a flame made it past
> moderation.

This is probably pointless as well, but a detailed rationale (which, last
I heard, was not in the plans for C++) could answer these questions as
well.  Is there a rationale for why there is no rationale?

speaking for myself,

David Chase
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Hello.

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

The other bitwise operators ( & | and ~ ) have their logical
aquivalent ( && || and ! ). And the XOR is IMHO not that uncommon.

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