Re: Re: If...Or...Else

"Skippy" <skippy@zuavra.net> wrote in message news:20040725231541.7472ccf7@xxx... > 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 -- http://www.templatetamer.com/