From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Troll (was Re: Making C++ little easier to beginners...)
Date: 18 Oct 2001 13:51:31 GMT
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"Traveler" <traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote in news:9qmkrh$581$1 AT tron DOT sci DOT fi:

> Little example...
> 
> int    x = 10,
>         y = 10;
> 
> if(x == 10 && x == 10)        // Does this look scary or weird to you ?
>     cout << "true\n";
> else
>     cout << "false\n";

This message is completely off-topic in this newsgroup. Further, what you 
describe has already been tried by a whole bunch of hapless people and 
rejected. If you want to use EQUAL for ==, then you should not be using C.
(See C faq 10.2 at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/).

<snip>

> #define    AND        &
> #define    COMPLEMENT    ~
> #define    EQUAL    =
> #define    EQU        EQUAL
> #define    NOT        !
> #define    OR            |
> #define    XOR        ^
> 
> As you can see the things "AND" & "OR" defined here are "bit" operators
> not "logical" operators. However, there really is no difference
> becourse you can use these two just as easily in "if" statementīs as in
> bit manipulation. 

the point is, if you want a logical operation, use the logical operator. 
OTOH, if you want a bitwise operation, use the bitwise operator.

Sinan.
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