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Re:Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwo... by phkahler on Thursday July 22, 2021 @05:22PM (#27924505)
>> Other than this particular edge case it's not obvious to me why bitwise operators shouldn't be applicable to boolean values.

That is a really good question. At some point they decided that true=1 and false=0 but I'm not sure how deep that goes. In particular what does ! actually do in this context?

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Re:Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwo... by gpderetta on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:09AM (#27928702)
In what context? Unless overloaded ! coerces its operand to bool and returns the negation.
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