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2.1.2 Boolean Operations

These are the Boolean operations, ordered by ascending priority:   

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, Notes:

(1)

These only evaluate their second argument if needed for their outcome.

(2)

`not' has a lower priority than non-Boolean operators, so e.g. not a == b is interpreted as not(a == b), and a == not b is a syntax error.

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