Alan asked:
> But why do people go to the
> effort of confusing readers by using "^" instead of "!="?
My guess - eor (^) was quicker than not-equal (!=) on a PDP-11.
That code fragment for checking uid's has been around a -long-
time, if my memory serves me.
It's gotten to be like the infamous "!!" boolean conversion
operator, a bit of vernacular that would be harder to read if
recoded using modern coding style.
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