{"id":19927,"date":"2022-11-08T04:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-solve-this-logical-expression-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T04:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:32:13","slug":"solved-how-to-solve-this-logical-expression-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-solve-this-logical-expression-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How to solve this logical expression? [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-33925202\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"33925202\" data-parentid=\"33924522\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Both <code>||<\/code> and <code>&amp;&amp;<\/code> force left to right operation.  Both fully evaluate their LHS operand and apply any side effects before evaluating the RHS.  Both <em>short-circuit<\/em>; if the result of the expression can be determined from the LHS, the RHS is not evaluated at all.<\/p>\n<p>For <code>||<\/code>, if the LHS evaluates to a non-zero value, then the RHS is not evaluated (<code>true OR x<\/code> is always <code>true<\/code>).<\/p>\n<p>For <code>&amp;&amp;<\/code>, if the LHS evaluates to a zero value, then the RHS is not evaluated (<code>false AND x<\/code> is always <code>false<\/code>).<\/p>\n<p><code>&amp;&amp;<\/code> has higher precedence than <code>||<\/code>, which has higher precedence than assignment, so the expression is <em>parsed<\/em> as<\/p>\n<pre><code>m = (++i || (++j &amp;&amp; ++k ))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>and <em>evaluated<\/em> as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><code>++i<\/code> is evaluated first (<code>||<\/code> forces left-to-right evaluation) and the side effect of incrementing <code>i<\/code> is applied;<\/li>\n<li>Since <code>i<\/code> is initially <code>-3<\/code>, <code>++i<\/code> evaluates to <code>-2<\/code>;<\/li>\n<li>Since <code>++i<\/code> evaluates to a non-zero value, the RHS expression <code>++j &amp;&amp; ++k<\/code> is not evaluated at all<sup>1<\/sup>;<\/li>\n<li>The result of an operation involving <code>||<\/code> or <code>&amp;&amp;<\/code> is a boolean value (either <code>0<\/code> or <code>1<\/code>) &#8211; since <code>++i<\/code> is non-zero, <code>++i || ++j &amp;&amp; ++k<\/code> evaluates to 1;<\/li>\n<li><code>1<\/code> is assigned to <code>m<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, by the time all of this is done, the following are true:<\/p>\n<pre><code>i == -2\nj == 2  \/\/ unchanged\nk == 0  \/\/ unchanged\nm == 1\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><sup>1.  If <code>++i<\/code> had evaluated to <code>0<\/code>, then <code>++j &amp;&amp; ++k<\/code> would have been evaluated by evaluating <code>++j<\/code> first, and if the result was non-zero, evaluating <code>++k<\/code>.<br \/><\/sup><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How to solve this logical expression? [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Both || and &amp;&amp; force left to right operation. Both fully evaluate their LHS operand and apply any side effects before evaluating the RHS. Both short-circuit; if the result of the expression can be determined from the LHS, the RHS is not evaluated at all. For ||, if the LHS evaluates to a non-zero &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] How to solve this logical expression? 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