From: yermej <yermej@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T15:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary Logic, Bug or Feature?

On Nov 27, 10:43 pm, Christian <chippers...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It should work if you use && instead of and. Not sure why that is, but
> I'm experencing the same thing as you when doing x = true and false,
> but it works as expected when using x = true && false.
>

This also happens in Perl and maybe other similar languages. The
English versions of the logical operators (and, or, not) have lower
precedence than the symbolic versions (&&, ||, !). Why? I don't know -
the languages were just designed that way.

Jeremy