'AND' vs '&&' as operator

Question

I have a codebase where developers decided to use AND and OR instead of && and ||.

I know that there is a

Answer 1

Precedence differs between && and and (&& has higher precedence than and), something that causes confusion when combined with a ternary operator. For instance,

$predA && $predB ? "foo" : "bar"

will return a string whereas

$predA and $predB ? "foo" : "bar"

will return a boolean.