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We prefer ftor instead of || and ftand for &&. That leaves || open for example to be used to indicate parallelism...
The possibility of changing from &&, ||, ! was raised previously in Bug 1630. It's resolution follows: ---- The Full-Text Task Force (FTTF) was advised that it could not change "&&", "||", "!" in XQuery and XPath Full-Text to "and", "or", "not" without producing conflicts with XQuery. At the last Face-to-Face, the FTTF decided not to change from "&&", "||", "!" to "ftand", "ftor", "ftnot". The majority of the FTTF prefers the symbolic notation. The FTTF realizes that the ampersands will need to be escaped if a query is placed in an URL, but considers that manageable. --- I have a great deal of sympathy with changing to ftand, ftor, ftnot. I think that the words are understandable on their face, where the symbols require explanation. That escaping problem would be an easily available complication. If || may have a more predictable and expected application, I think we should reconsider the use of &&, ||, ! once more.
The FTTF agreed to make this change at the F2F in New Orelans. Jochen has made these changes in the FT language document. Pat has made them in the FT Use Cases. Michael, please review the changes and CLOSE this bug if you find the changes satisfactory. Pat
Because you participated in the TF when this bug was resolved, we presume that your concerns are addressed appropriately. We are therefore marking this bug as CLOSED.