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| is bitwise OR ^ is bitwise XOR so, "result |= x ^ y" will change result to true if x and y are different. since its bitwise, the bits that are different betw
by matthavener 15y ago
| is bitwise OR
^ is bitwise XOR
so, "result |= x ^ y" will change result to true if x and y are different. since its bitwise, the bits that are different between x and y will be set in result
- reemrevnivek 15y agoMore precisely, "result |= x ^ y" will change result to be nonzero, not "true". For example, if x = 0b0101 and y = 0b0011, x ^ y = 0b0110. If result was previously 0b0011 from a previous test, then after "result |= 0b0110" result will be 0b0111. Of course, in many programming languages (including Java and Python), a value of zero is interpreted as false and anything else is true.