White Vertical Bar
Part of Math Symbols
White Vertical Bar has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⫾
- Unicode
- U+2AFE
About this symbol
⫾, the white vertical bar, is Dijkstra’s choice, from the guarded commands Edsger Dijkstra described in 1975. It separates alternatives in a program, any one of which may run when its condition is true, a way of writing programs that do not fix their order in advance.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- WHITE VERTICAL BAR
- Also called
- Dijkstra choice
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Supplemental Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Operators
- Added in
- Unicode 3.2 (2002)
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