Operator precedence (bitwise ‘&’ lower than ‘==’)

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You need to ask Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie.
From this forum: http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/167377-operator-precedence

The && and || operators were added later
for their “short-circuiting” behavior. Dennis Ritchie admits in
retrospect that the precedence of the bitwise operators should have
been changed when the logical operators were added. But with several
hundred kilobytes of C source code in existence at that point and an
installed base of three computers, Dennis thought it would be too big
of a change in the C language…

So, that might be a reason? I’m guessing since there are several layers of bitwise precendence (unlike relational comparisons) that it’s cruft that’s existed since…forever…and just was never corrected.

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