This WP article: Short-circuit evaluation

covers most if not all aspects of this thread and lists languages with similar behavior. (See table entries marked "last value", like Perl, Ruby, JS, Python,...)

Quotes:

• In loosely typed languages that have more than the two truth-values True and False, short-circuit operators may return the last evaluated subexpression. The expression x and y is equivalent to y if x else x; the expression x or y is equivalent to x if x else y (without evaluating x twice). This is called "last value" in the table below.
• For some Boolean operations, like exclusive or (XOR), it is not possible to short-circuit, because both operands are always required to determine the result.

see also Re^5: 'xor' operator is not a sibling to 'or' and 'and'?

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