And vs AndAlso

[Mehyar]

Ok so I know AndAlso is better than And becasue if the first operand is false, it doenot compute the second, and the same applies to OrElse, the question I have is Are And and Or operators left for backward compatibility ? becasue I still cant see any use of them in the presence of AndAlso and OrElse ??

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

You may have code that requires both operands to be evaluated - perhaps you are comparing the result of two functions - but both of those functions have required side-effects. Not good design in my opinion but it does happen from time to time.

 

[AndreRyan]

Plus the And and Or operators and bitwise operators. You use Or with Enumerations for choosing multiple flags and use And to figure out which flags are selected.