Le 19/04/13 10:22, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit :
>
> It looks like an overprinting of the 3 characters = ( )
>
Yes, it looks like that.
It seems the text comes from a typewriter, so it was not a problem to go
back and overprint.
Was that overprinting of =, ( and ) a surrogate for a missing #?
> Le 19 avr. 2013 09:57, "David Starner" <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> http://archive.org/details/bitsavers_sdcjovialTerDec61_12294913 is a
> 1961 programming book on the programming language Jovial. On page 7ff
> is a character I've never seen before; I'm pretty sure it's
> overprinting, but I'm not sure of what. I've attached an image to this
> email message.
>
> The text says "The metasymbol 𒀗 signifies syntactic equivalence,
> while the colon
> signifies concatenation and the semicolon ; signifies selection
> between
> adjacent elements."
>
> --
> Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
>
Espero panon ne donas.
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