Thanks for the info. It might be nice to put this in the CLL somewhere, as I seem to recall while reading it wondering how to deal with these cases.
On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 7:47:43 PM UTC-5, lojbab wrote:
On 6/29/2015 12:30 AM, Spheniscine (la zipcpi) wrote:
> It's been often noted that {broda jonai brode jonai brodi} doesn't quite
> work as it is often expected to; connecting more than two items with
> exclusive-or actually means "an odd number of these things are true",
> which is a rather awkward concept.
>
> More generally though, what we really want to say here is "one out of
> these are true".
This was already designed into the language, long ago. If you have a
set of members, you enclose them, linked by ce (or possibly ce'o) in
lu'i [lu'u] brackets and precede them with a quantifier, or you can
choose one of the other forms of set description
lojbab