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The joke is bad because the husband is supposed to bring seven gallons of milk. Since the egg condition is checked after he already got one.
No no, the imperative "get six" overrides the previous "buy a gallon of milk" if the "they have eggs" condition is met.
"get six" implies
x === 6notx = x + 6, that would be "get six more"The real problem is that "buy" was only specified in the first case. Because the conditional was met, he should get six gallons of milk but not buy them.
Now just how did he procure the rest of the 5, is a mystery.
He cloned the supermarket.
Omg, youβre so right. I didnβt read it that way until you pointed that out.