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It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> 
> 
> On 29/07/15 11:18 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> >2015-07-29 15:56 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> >
> >>Can we get true | false to be a thing?
> >debug.setmetatable(true,{
> >   __bor = function(x,y)
> >     assert (type(x)=='boolean' and type(y)=='boolean')
> >     return x or y
> >   end;
> >     __band = function(x,y)
> >     assert (type(x)=='boolean' and type(y)=='boolean')
> >     return x and y
> >   end;
> >})
> >
> >I like that! But why do you call it a proposal?
> >
> It would be non-short-circuiting and/or.

  We already have those in the langauge, "and" and "or".  The operators "&",
"|" and "~" work bitwise, not logic wise.  There's a reason why C has both
"|" and "||" for "or".

  -spc