Having gotten the explanation as to why those
operations were chosen, it
does make sense and is somewhat elegant (I'll reluctantly concede), but
it's still stupid as far as I'm concerned. Why didn't they use * or X
for AND then?
They did!. Or rather you normally use '.', which is also a conventional
sign for multiplication (as it X.Y). IIRC it should actually be a dot
halfway up the letter, not on the baseline, but that's not on my keyboard
-tony