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Date:         Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:01:28 +0100
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From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: boolean expressions in ExplSyntaxNames
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On 23/09/2010 00:08, Morten Høgholm wrote:
> I know one could do this the way you have outlined. There are,
> however, a few gotcha (as always in TeX), which is why there have been
> different implementations. If you look back in time in the svn, you
> will also find that there was actually both "ands" and "ors" functions
> at one point.

[lots of careful analysis]

Morten makes a good case for the current approach: back to thinking for me!
-- 
Joseph Wright