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or -- disjunction

Description

t or u -- returns true if t is true or u is true.

If t is true, then the code in u is not evaluated.

See also

For the programmer

The object or is a keyword.

This operator may be used as a binary operator in an expression like x or y. The user may install binary methods for handling such expressions with code such as
         X  or  Y := (x,y) -> ...
where X is the class of x and Y is the class of y.