Operators/Logical And
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Logical and is a Boolean operation on any two data types. The operation is commutative and associative, and is indicated by a binary, infix && (two consecutive ampersands).
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Notation
α && β
Where α and β are both variables, literals, or values of any data type or class.
Operation
If both α and β are true, then the whole thing will evaluate as true. Otherwise, it will evaluate as false. Note that it won't evaluate to the values true and false. The && operator, in FizzFuzz, is short-circuiting, meaning that, when a false value is encountered, && immediately evaluates to false.
Notes
In addition to being short-circuiting, as above, FizzFuzz's && operator also will return the last value it's evaluated. In a series of true values, this will return the very last values, while it will return the last false value if there is one.
Examples
int alpha = 1; int beta = 2; char gamma = 'c'; output << (alpha && beta && gamma); // Outputs "c", as it's the last value evaluated. output << (alpha && null && gamma); // Outputs "null", as it's the last value evaluated.
