and/or/not/xor operators

Minas Mina minas_mina1990 at hotmail.co.uk
Fri May 31 03:42:09 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 16:48:33 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Shriramana Sharma:
>
>> Hello. I have always loved the readability of C++'s 
>> and/or/not/xor
>> word-like logical operators but It doesn't seem to be 
>> available in D.
>
> and/or/not are less visually noisy, they look better than the 
> ugly &&/||/! of C/C++/D, and it's much less easy to write & 
> when you need && or vice versa, so they are also less 
> bug-prone, as Python shows. On this Python syntax got it better 
> than D.
>
> But Walter refused them time ago on the basis that no one uses 
> them in C++. So you can ask for them in the main D newsgroup, 
> but I don't think you will see them in D...
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

They are more noisy for non-English talking persons.


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