Evaluating an idea based on it's syntactic similarities to other
languages is complete and utter nonsense. It has nothing to with being
like language Xyz. It has to do with familiarity to language constructs.
One already understands the idea of 'this || that'. It's certainly
I'll throw the water on this one:
<?php
$c = 0;
$a = 1;
var_dump($c || $a);
?>
Changing true into false consitutes a rather severe BC break :).
How about ||| and |||= ?