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Explain C++ code

There is a C++ challenge with the following code: int x=1,y=1,z=1; cout << (++x || ++y && ++z); cout << x << y << z; Thre result is 1211. First '1' is from the first cout and therefore: x = 2 y = 1 z = 1 I know that for an OR expression such as (++x || ++y), if the first term is true then there is no need to evaluate the second. This leads to x=2 and y=1. But how about the AND expression? Why is z not set to 1? Does z not getting evaluated?

25th Jun 2018, 5:57 AM
Adam Aksu
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z is not getting evaluated because it looks like this: ++x || (++y && ++z) since && has higher precedence than ||
25th Jun 2018, 6:29 AM
Max
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this reminds me of some groovy code where I was evaluating the Boolean return of a function before the simpler variable check and it slowed things down significantly... to illustrate: (someBoolFunction()||x==5) vs (x==5||someBoolFunction())
26th Jun 2018, 11:49 AM
cyber33
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Aaah got it. Assumed same precedence. So it boils down to an OR expression.. Thank you Max && Udi Finkelstein !
25th Jun 2018, 6:40 AM
Adam Aksu
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Saurav Priyadarshi it is not x that is printed but the result (true, I.e. 1) of the logical expression within parentheses.
27th Jun 2018, 12:57 AM
Sonic
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You got it 99% correct. The missing 1% you missed is that due to operator precedence, the && operator has a higher precedence than || and therefore, The right hand side of the || expression, which as you said yourself, is not evaluated (because the 1st part is already true) includes the entire '++y && ++z' expression.
25th Jun 2018, 6:31 AM
Udi Finkelstein
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Petest Sam || stands for the logical OR operation
27th Jun 2018, 1:00 AM
Sonic
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The operator precedence is not necessarily the same thing as order of execution (evaluation). As a result, the above line can be explicitely reform as follow for clarifying the evaluation order ( ++x || (++y && ++z)) Once left side of || being evaluted to true, the right side (as you aware) is discarded.
25th Jun 2018, 6:38 AM
To Seek Glory in Battle is Glorious
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Vulture With Loveness☺️☺️ are you asking about my previous comment about || ? It was just in response to a question from Petest Sam about meaning of the double pipe symbol.
28th Jun 2018, 5:28 AM
Sonic
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Petest Sam it is the logical or. expression || expression is true if at least one of them is true
25th Jun 2018, 9:52 PM
Max
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in this question what does || stand for?
25th Jun 2018, 9:51 PM
Petest Sam
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AK-47 seems like i missed a "."
25th Jun 2018, 9:56 PM
Max
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Saurav Priyadarshi because the result lf the logical operation is true and true gets cast to 1 for printing
26th Jun 2018, 9:26 AM
Max
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Petest Sam As Max mentioned, the expected result from a logical OR operation is pretty much straight forward. Note that any non-zero value is considered true or 1 when doing evaluation. ~example~ int x = 31; int y = 0; int z = -1; bool b1 = x || y; // true bool b2 = x || z; // true bool b3 = y || y; // false
25th Jun 2018, 10:10 PM
To Seek Glory in Battle is Glorious
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Max I guess you meant logical OR operator, right? ;)
25th Jun 2018, 9:55 PM
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seems to be interested in this platform
26th Jun 2018, 5:37 AM
Sanjay Govind S
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Why is 1 not 2 printed in the beginning? Since we can see that prefix increment is applied on x, so x should be incremented before being printed.
26th Jun 2018, 9:19 AM
Saurav Priyadarshi
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Saurav, because of the OR/AND operators, the term inside the brackets gets evaluated to a bool, with a value of true this is output as 1.
26th Jan 2020, 8:41 AM
Simon Castro
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There you need precidence bro as you know that the higher precidence operator is %. As here the &&op is the higher orecidence then the ||op.
19th May 2020, 10:53 PM
Naveed
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