[Tutor] Preference to Bitwise operators in comparison to Logical operators

[Alan Gauld]

On 11/09/2020 00:26, Matt Ruffalo wrote:

> Note that 'and' and 'or' are not technically Boolean operators; they are
> *control flow* operators. These return one of the operands, not
> necessarily True or False.

While that's true they are not intended to be used for control flow,
that's just a feature of their implementation (it's how C does it!).
But they have been like that since the beginning so changing them
to pure booleans would break a lot of code.

But the intent of 'and', 'or', 'not' is to be used as logical
boolean operators. That's why thy are listed as such in the
Reference (sect 6.11)

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