Regan Heath:
I find them ugly and less clear - because I can glance at words & symbols and immediately see the operator, faster than with words and symbols.
Finding a short, common and easy to write English word "ugly" is quite strange, especially for a person that seems able to write in English.
In C code it's not uncommon to write "&" where you meant "&&" by mistake and vice versa (so common that all the lint tools I know of have rules to spot such kind of bug). And for most kinds of not low-level programming bitwise operators are far less commonly used than boolean operators. So it's a good idea to visually differentiate them more.
Maybe if you program in Python a little you will appreciate my opinion :-)
--------------- Minas Mina:
They are more noisy for non-English talking persons.<
It's hard to believe, it's the first time I hear that. I have no reliable studies on this topic.
Bye, bearophile
