Re: [lojban] use and abuse of sets

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>

la kir cusku di'e

>{lu'i do le'e mlatu ce gerku cu simsa le ka prami simxu}

I am not sure what {mlatu ce gerku} means. Is it the
union of the set of cats and the set of dogs? Or is it
the (presumably empty) intersection? I suppose it has
to be the union. So we would have:

    lo [pa] mlatu ce gerku du lo'i mlatu ja gerku

    "The set union of the set of cats and
    the set of dogs is the set of things that are
    either cats or dogs (or both)."

>I do always prefer strong-typed programming languages, so it is very
>natural for me that set is similar to set in quality of being {simxu}.

I would have expressed it as:

do lo'e mlatu ku joi lo'e gerku cu simsa le ka prami simxu

co'o mi'e xorxes

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