As AND and OR, I think they should behave as the ops: AND returns the first false value, or the last true value if no false values are encountered; OR returns the first true value, or the last false value if no true values are encountered.
I'd be curious to learn how the languages that have multi-arg AND and OR resolve this question. Of the languages I'm familiar with only Scheme fits this description, and, at least in the Scheme implementations I have on my machine (PLT Scheme/mzscheme and MIT Scheme), (and) is true and (or) is false; e.g. (for MIT Scheme): 
1 ]=> (and)

;Value: #t

1 ]=> (and 3)

;Value: 3

1 ]=> (and 0)

;Value: 0

1 ]=> (or)

;Value: ()

1 ]=> (or 3)

;Value: 3

1 ]=> (or 0)

;Value: 0

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The way I understand these generalized versions of these functions is that AND is false if any of its arguments is false, true otherwise; OR is true if any of its arguments is true, false otherwise. In this formulation, the case of no arguments is not problematic.

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In reply to Re^4: An infix fix by tlm
in thread An infix fix by tlm

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