Limit XOR and IFF to two arguments #59
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Currently, XOR and IFF are specified as n-ary connectives. In addition to being rarely used, these connectives are not intuitive in their associative, n-ary forms. For example, a naive user may confuse XOR with natural 'either .. or', which doesn't hold with more than 2 args; it is rather 'odd' (pun intended :)). I think those FTA tools that do support these gates limit the number of arguments to 2 (e.g., graphically). It would be unreasonable to require generality without a practical need.
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I agree totally. Never seen the use of un XOR with more than 2 args. Moreover there to 2 ways defined it (either one and only one, or parity) |
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These connectives are not intuitive with more than 2 args. More reasoning: open-psa/mef#59 Issue #231
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These connectives are not intuitive with more than 2 args. More reasoning: open-psa/mef#59 Issue #232
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Currently, XOR and IFF are specified as n-ary connectives.
Besides being rarely used/needed,
these connectives are not intuitive in their associative, n-ary forms.
For example, a naive user may confuse XOR with natural 'either .. or',
which doesn't hold with more than 2 args;
it is rather 'odd' (pun intended :)).
I think those FTA tools that do support these gates
limit the number of arguments to 2 (e.g., graphically).
It would be unreasonable to require generality without a practical need.