[OT] help w/ bitwise comparison operators

[Kevin D. Clark]

Erik Price <eprice at ptc.com> writes:

> You're right, thanks for the correction.  I mis-read the text.  &, |,
> &&, and || are all -logical- operators, and what I said above is true
> only for boolean values.  The short-circuit logical operators (&& and
> ||) won't compile if they are used with integral operands, though the
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                       
> bitwise operators (& and |) will.

OK, now we're really splitting hairs, and I suspect that you mistyped
anyways, but just to be clear, the logical operators work on any
scalar type.

For example, these are all legal in C:

        1 && 2
        2 && 3.14
        2.718 && "hello"
        'b' && &foo;

Etc.

--kevin
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When you're playing with bits, expect to get bitten.