note 92939 deleted from language.operators.logical by danbrown

Note Submitter: ravenswd at gmail dot com ---- People seem to think that || and && are better to use than "or" and "and" in every situiation. The reality is that it only matters in situations where one is setting a variable equal to the result of a logical expression, as the previously-posted examples illustrate. In almost every other use, || and "or" are equivalent: <?php if ($filename == '.' || $filename == '..') { continue; } if ($filename == '.' or $filename == '..') { continue; } ?> These two lines will produce exactly the same results, but the second line is (in my opinion) clearer, because it uses an English word rather than an abstract symbol. If one is really worried about operator precedence, one can always use parenthesis, like this: <?php if ( ($filename == '.') or ($filename == '..') ) { continue; } ?> This version is clearest of all.