Re: [wmii] snap: 20060316

From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:38:28 +0100

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:20:55AM +0100, zimba.tm wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 09:40, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > This will create a ws called '1+2' which consists of all clients
> > which contain the tag '1' OR '2' in their tags file.
>
> Why OR and not AND ? All tags selection mechanisms I know use AND. It doesn't
> mean it's right.

Because '+' normally is used to describe OR and not ANT in algebra
(at least in US afaik). AND would also imply that only clients show
up which contain both tags, 1 and 2, and that would be pointless
for such a select command, because you really want a union join
and no diff join.

Regards,

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