I knew this, but I always find it a rather disappointing choice in the language design, as I think its capacity for inspiring bugs rather outweighs its usefulne

I knew this, but I always find it a rather disappointing choice in the language design, as I think its capacity for inspiring bugs rather outweighs its usefulness (which extends as far as making some parentheses unnecessary). In a nutshell: there are two forms of the AND and OR operators, with different precedences; in many contexts, you can use them interchangeably; but in some, they'll behave differently, and could bite you.