Is it good practice to use the xor operator for boolean checks? [closed]

Answer 1

You could always just wrap it in a function to give it a verbose name:

public static boolean XOR(boolean A, boolean B) {
    return A ^ B;
}

But, it seems to me that it wouldn't be hard for anyone who didn't know what the ^ operator is for to Google it really quick. It's not going to be hard to remember after the first time. Since you asked for other uses, its common to use the XOR for bit masking.

You can also use XOR to swap the values in two variables without using a third temporary variable.

// Swap the values in A and B
A ^= B;
B ^= A;
A ^= B;

Here's a Stackoverflow question related to XOR swapping.