Harlan Messinger wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> I don't think the use of "\" in the construction of "Ascii graphic"
>> is particularly advanced, but the late Bob Bemer, the inventor of the
>> backslash, probably wouldn't object to it. After all, part of the
>> motivation for this character was to make it possible to write the
>> symbols for logical disjunction and logical conjunction, as defined
>> in the Algol programming language, as pairs of Ascii characters: \/
>> and /\. So the particular visual appearance was more or less part of
>> the idea.
>
> SERIOUSLY?
Yes, seriously, see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin...i-hist.html#5C
Some fonts still have "/" and "\" designed so that when they occur in
succession, in either order, they form a continuous symbol. See
http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jk...gi?code=%2F%5C
This might be partly a coincidence, because a very simple design creates
that phenomenon.
Of course, if someone really need logical disjunction or conjunction symbol
these days, he should consider using U+2228 LOGICAL OR and U+2227 LOGICAL
AND, even though this implies some need for font considerations.
--
Yucca,
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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