[OT] help w/ bitwise comparison operators

[Kevin D. Clark]

Erik Price <eprice at ptc.com> writes:

> The short circuit operators AND (&&) and OR (||) work just like their
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> regular counterparts except they stop evaluating once they "know" the
> result (AND stops evaluating if the first operand is false, and OR
> stops evaluating if the first operand is true).

You might be interested to know that (1 & 2) results in 0 wheras 
(1 && 2) results in something non-zero...

Remember, operators like '&' are bit operators, wheras operators like
'&&' are logical operators.  These are very different.

Regards,

--kevin
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