difference between !=(Not equal) and ^(XOR)

[Jonah Hague]

Is there another difference between an inequality test on booleans and an Exclusive OR besides the obvious fact that a XOR is only for booleans and a NOT EQUAL is also for ints, floats,...
example:

if(true!=false)
...

if(true^false)
...

both of these if-statements seem to accomplish the same thing

[Nickolas Case]

XOR allows you to test against more than one argument and evaluates to true if and only if one of the arguments you are checking against is true.
For example:

  if(true == false^true) //equals true
        if(true == true^true) //equals false   

Whereas != is only one argument at a time

 if(true!=false) // true   

Hope this helps.
[ April 28, 2008: Message edited by: Nickolas Case ]

[Dan Walin]

just for accuracy, in your sample code shouldn't it be:

  
 if(true == false^true) //equals true
      if(true == true^true) //equals false  
 
  

Using the equals "==" rather than the assignment "=" operator?

[Nickolas Case]

Yes it should. Adjusted accordingly. :-)

[Ilja Preuss]

Nickolas

if(true == false^true)

is exactly the same as

if(false^true)

which is equivalent to

if(false!=true)

which again is exactly the same as

if(true == (false!=true))

So I really don't understand the distinction you are making.