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    <p>I've been programming nearly all of my life (around 20+ years), and I don't think I can remember a single time when I was looking at a if-statement and think "Hmmm, this would be a good time to use XOR." The entire logical programming universe seems to revolve around just these three.</p> <p>Granted, with AND/OR/NOT gates, you can make any other logical statement. However, there might be a time where it might save you some code to combine two or three statements into a single logical statement. Let's look at the 16 possible combinations of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_connective#Table_of_binary_logical_connectives" rel="nofollow">logical connectives</a>:</p> <ol> <li>FALSE = Contradiction = 0, null, NOT TRUE</li> <li>TRUE = Tautology = 1, NOT FALSE</li> <li>X = Proposition X = X</li> <li>NOT X = Negation of X = !X</li> <li>Y = Proposition Y = Y</li> <li>NOT Y = Negation of Y = !Y</li> <li>X AND Y = Conjunction = NOT (X NAND Y)</li> <li>X NAND Y = Alternative Denial = NOT (X AND Y), !X OR !Y</li> <li>X OR Y = Disjunction = NOT (!X AND !Y)</li> <li>X NOR Y = Joint Denial = NOT (X OR Y), !X AND !Y</li> <li>X ⊅ Y = Material Nonimplication = X AND !Y, NOT(!X OR Y), (X XOR Y) AND X, ???</li> <li>X ⊃ Y = Material Implication = !X OR Y, NOT(X AND !Y), (X XNOR Y) OR X, ???</li> <li>X ⊄ Y = Converse Nonimplication = !X AND Y, NOT(X OR !Y), (X XOR Y) AND Y, ???</li> <li>X ⊂ Y = Converse Implication = X OR !Y, NOT(!X AND Y), (X XNOR Y) OR Y, ???</li> <li>X XOR Y = Exclusive disjunction = NOT (X IFF Y), NOT (X XNOR Y), X != Y</li> <li>X XNOR Y = Biconditional = X IFF Y, NOT (X XOR Y), !X AND !Y</li> </ol> <p>So, items 1-2 involve zero variables, items 3-6 involve one, and items 7-10 are terms we are familiar with. (Though, we don't usually have a NAND operator, but at least Perl has "unless" for universal NOT.)</p> <p>Items 11-14 seem like interesting ones, but I've never seen these in programming. Items 15-16 are the XOR/XNOR.</p> <p>Can any of these be used for AND/OR/NOT simplification? If so, have you used them?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> "Not equal" or != is really XOR, which is used constantly. So, XOR is being used after all.</p>
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    1. CO"Can any of these be used for AND/OR/NOT simplification?" Are you kidding? Look at the right side of your list. Now look at the left. Done.
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    2. COAnd for what its worth, these operators are most often used for bit-masking functions, not logical/conditional simplification.
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    3. CO**Are you kidding? Look at the right side of your list. Now look at the left. Done.** Yes, but I'm talking practically. XOR is about the only other function available in programming, and again, I've never really seen a spot to use it. Most of my complex logic statements involve several different variables, which wouldn't apply here.
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