"Skippy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I just wanted to make things clear, because the way you said it above may
> lead to misinterpretations, such as believing that || makes all the
elements
> in a condition evaluate even if not necessary, which is not true.
>
> So OR simply has lower precedence than ||, but no other hidden properties.
>
> Any idea why the need to have two logical operators with the same meaning
BUT
> different precedences? I dig the need to put in OR as an alias, but why
> confuse people with the precedence issue? One would tend to think || and
OR
> are perfectly interchangeable.
with OR you can write (and even get desirable result ;) :
$resultSet = mysql_query( abla dabla ) OR die("something");
since it OR has lower precedence than assignment operator =
rush
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