C# Language Specification

Logical operators

The &, ^, and | operators are called the logical operators.

and-expression:
equality-expression
and-expression & equality-expression

exclusive-or-expression:
and-expression
exclusive-or-expression ^ and-expression

inclusive-or-expression:
exclusive-or-expression
inclusive-or-expression | exclusive-or-expression

If an operand of a logical operator has the compile-time type dynamic, then the expression is dynamically bound (§7.2.2). In this case the compile-time type of the expression is dynamic, and the resolution described below will take place at run-time using the run-time type of those operands that have the compile-time type dynamic.

For an operation of the form x op y, where op is one of the logical operators, overload resolution (§7.3.4) is applied to select a specific operator implementation. The operands are converted to the parameter types of the selected operator, and the type of the result is the return type of the operator.

The predefined logical operators are described in the following sections.

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