A better name for the short-circuiting && operator is "andthen". Since "false && X" is false for all X, && does not evaluate its right operand if the left opera

A better name for the short-circuiting && operator is "andthen". Since "false && X" is false for all X, && does not evaluate its right operand if the left operand is false; this translates into branches in the assembly code, as if you had written nested "if" statements.