Which C++ logical operators do you use: and, or, not and the ilk or C style operators? why? [closed]

Question

leisure/curiosity question as implied in the title.

I personally prefer the new operators as to make code more readable in my opinion.

Which ones do use yourself? What is your reason for choosing one over the other one?

also Emacs highlights those operators differently so I get more visual feedback when looking at the screen. I know the old operators can be highlighted as well but the ISO646 highlighted by default

Answer 1

I don't think I have ever even seen C/C++ source code that actually uses the alphabetic operators. To me, it just looks strange; very un-C-ish.

Answer 2

I prefer to use not instead of ! because it's a lot more readable:

if (not condition()) {
}

versus

if (!condition()) {
}

The ! kind of gets lost in there. Of course, this must be avoided (or #defined) when writing code intended to be portable.

However, and and or don't do much for me, so I don't use them.