Using '&&' instead of 'if' for single instructions

Question

I'd like to know if there are any problems with doing this:

($this->debug)
    && print "We're debugging right now";

instead of this:

if ($this->debug)
    print "We're debugging right now";

To me, it's just a style thing. Does it do exactly the same thing?

Answer 1

Please don't. This is horribly unreadable. And it starts innocently enough, soon other "clever" developers would come and invent more "clever" ways of using this && operator to avoid those "horrible" ifs.

Please... Don't.

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Functionally, yes, they will work the same.