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I asked, "isn't this what the logical OR gives us?"

"Barry Margolin" <barmar@genuity.net> wrote...
>
> No, because that always coerces the result to a boolean,
> returning either 1 or 0.

Ah yes, silly me. We'd need...

    (/*something*/ = cond) || (/*something*/ = expr2);

...but this can't be used as a initialising expression for
"something".

    T const something = (.... ? .... : ....);

Besides, using || purely for its short-circuit evaluation
property (rather than its result) is slightly evil.

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