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Basically, the purpose of having both logical and bitwise AND and OR is to allow short-circuit evaluation on the logical expressions. Other wise, you could get by with just the bitwise operators.
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There is no logical XOR in C++, mainly because, unlike AND and OR, XOR cannot be "short-curcuit" evaluated: With AND and OR, once you've evaluated the first operand, half the time you'll know if...