> That leaves error reduction and clarity as the main motivations for
> changing 'and' and 'or' to act like '&&' and '||' and for introducing a
> conditional operator to handle everyone's favorite use cases.

I predict that people who use "and" and "or" correctly today will
start confusing "&&" with "&" and "||" with "|", which in many
instances will pass silently.  In fact, I'll wager that lots of people
who are familiar with boolean and/or will have never used bitwise
and/or.

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