Logical && and || operator precedence is broken

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nfrasser
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Logical && and || operator precedence is broken

Post by nfrasser »

Not a big deal since you can always use parens, but just a heads up for people experiencing issues with this.

In Boolean algebra, the logical AND operator has higher order-of-operations precedence than logical OR. Therefore, the following two expressions should be equivalent:

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(true && true) || (true && false) // Result: true
true && true || true && false // Result: false in JSX (should be true)
In JSX, their results vary as indicated. The second expression is equivalent to this:

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((true && true) || true) && false
This does not follow logical order of operations. I confirmed that the two expressions both evaluate to true in other JavaScript engines.