Boolean operators

Operators that take two boolean operands are the following:

||: logical OR
&&: logical AND

The both evaluate their left and right operands and interpret them as booleans the same way as the if-else statement does.

Each operators work the same way as they do in other common programming language, aside that they don't support short-circuit evaluation. Both operands are evaluated, always.

The result of the operator expressions is based on the truthfulness of the operands.

Logical OR truth table

The following table specifies the result of the || operator given the operand values.

Left		Right		Result
`false`	`\|\|`	`false`	`=`	`false`
`false`	`\|\|`	`true`	`=`	`true`
`true`	`\|\|`	`false`	`=`	`true`
`true`	`\|\|`	`true`	`=`	`true`

Logical AND truth table

The following table specifies the result of the && operator given the operand values.

Left		Right		Result
`false`	`&&`	`false`	`=`	`false`
`false`	`&&`	`true`	`=`	`false`
`true`	`&&`	`false`	`=`	`false`
`true`	`&&`	`true`	`=`	`true`

# simple usage
$left || $right
$left && $right

# using in an if condition
if $left || $right {
	# ...
}

# using in ternary
$left || $right ? $trueval : $falseval

# complex conditions
($first || $second) && ($third && ($fourth || !$fifth))

The AND (&&) operator takes precedence before the OR (||) operator. However, we recommend developers to use parentheses in order to improve readability of the code.

# the following are the same given the precedence of the operators
 $first && second  || $third ||  $fourth && $fifth
($first && second) || $third || ($fourth && $fifth)

# the following is false
false && true || false
# same as 
(false && true) || false

Boolean negate

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