In C, the && and || operators are short-circuiting. This works (in that it doesn't give a compiler error) because printf returns an int.

I remember following a really old Python tutorial that suggested the way to write inline if/else statements was

  C and A or B

which makes use of similar short-circuiting behavior. Nowadays this is written as

  A if C else B

The and/or version depends on A being truthy, otherwise it evaluates both A and B, giving the value of B.

this is a classic functional programming that prefers expression like above instead of `if` statements.