Why do we use && instead of &? I initially used & in my code, and it worked just fine.
Just in addition, the bitwise & will evaluate both sides of the comparison where as the logical && will stop once it’s evaluated as false. The && saves compute cycles and prevents null references that you’ll learn about in later sections.
int x = 4;
int y = 6;
if (x > 5 && y > 5) {
// code
}
Since x is not greater than 5, the computer will not evaluate whether y is greater than 5 since it doesn’t matter.
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Thank you! This helped a lot.
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Also to add to @BillN’s comment. That is known as short-circuiting and also happens with logical or ||
when the left hand operand is true, it doesn’t evaluate the right hand since it already knows the result is true.
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