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Resolved: Is there actually a reason why overloaded && and || don't short circuit? #it #fix #programming

Is there actually a reason why overloaded && and || don’t short circuit?

The short circuiting behaviour of the operators && and || is an amazing tool for programmers.

But why do they lose this behaviour when overloaded? I understand that operators are merely syntactic sugar for functions but the operators for boolhave this behaviour, why should it be restricted to this single type? Is there any…

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Is there actually a reason why overloaded && and || don’t short circuit?

The short circuiting behaviour of the operators && and || is an amazing tool for programmers.

But why do they lose this behaviour when overloaded? I understand that operators are merely syntactic sugar for functions but the operators for boolhave this behaviour, why should it be restricted to this single type? Is there any…