Re: 1 or 1/0 doesn't raise an exception

Rohannes wrote:
'Dive into Python' has a very memorable and interesting section on the
exact behaviour of 'and' and 'or' in Python:

http://diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/and_or.html

No: &, | (and ^, too) perform bitwise operations in Python, C and Java:

"In complete evaluation ... both expressions are always evaluated. To
obtain complete evaluation in Java, you use & rather than && ... and
use | in place of ||" - Walter Savitch, Absolute Java 2nd ed.

Although & IS the bitwise-AND operator in Java:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/operators.html

I guess it's a matter of context.

Java has a bool type that's distinct from the int type. &, | and ^ are bitwise for int and Boolean for bool, and in both cases they are strict. && and || are for bool only and they are lazy.

In Pascal the behaviour of "and" and "or" is implementation-dependant...
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