Pipe in the "return" statement

[gwowen]

On Jul 25, 3:16 pm, Archard Lias <archardl... at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Yes, but how does it get determined, which one actually gets returned?


It's a bit-wise or, not a logical or so what get returns is a
combination of the two results.  The n-th bit of the return value is 1
if the n-th bit of either (or both) of the two statements

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a     1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 ...
b     0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 ...
a|b   1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 ...
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