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by caf
4675 days ago
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The reason that & and | have lower precedence than the comparison operators is indeed historical - it's because the earliest versions of the language didn't have the logical boolean operators && and ||, so the bitwise & and | operators stood in for them. The lower precedence meant that you could write: if (x == 1 & y == 2) {
..and have it do what you meant. This became a bit of a wart when the && and || operators were introduced (still well before ANSI standardisation), but it was considered that changing it would have broken too much existing code. |
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