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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C history question
Keywords: C design, XOR
Message-ID: <10839@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 14 Sep 89 03:25:39 GMT
References: <575@calmasd.Prime.COM>
Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <575@calmasd.Prime.COM> wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Walter Peterson) writes:

>C has bitwise operators for AND (&), OR (|) and XOR (^) and boolean 
>operator for AND (&&) and OR (||), but not for XOR (^^). Why?

In A && B, if A is false (0) then B is not evaluated.
In A || B, if A is true (non-0) then B is not evaluated.
In A ^^ B, for which value(s) of A do you skip B?

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