From decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!research!dmr Fri Oct 22 01:04:10 1982 Subject: Operator precedence Newsgroups: net.lang.c The priorities of && || vs. == etc. came about in the following way. Early C had no separate operators for & and && or | and ||. (Got that?)  Instead it used the notion (inherited from B and BCPL) of "truth-value context": where a Boolean value was expected, after "if" and "while" and so forth, the & and | operators were interpreted as && and || are now; in ordinary expressions...