Lazy, overloaded C++ && operator?

Question

I\'m trying to implement my own boolean class, but cannot replicate native semantics for &&. The following contrived code demonstrates the issue:

Answer 1

If you really want short-circuiting and are willing to sacrifice the operator syntax, you can rename your operator&& method to _and, define an AND() macro, and write AND(x,y) instead of x&&y.

#define AND(x,y) (x._and(x.theValue ? y : MyBool(false)))

With some macro hacks you can have AND() accept a variable number of parameters.

The _and() method here is not intended to be used "publicly" here but must be declared public since you can't friend a macro.

For something as simple as your MyBool class, this is probably unnecessary. But if you need your operator&& to have special side-effects like updating some state on this, then this gets the job done.