Conditional XOR?

There is the logical XOR operator: ^

Documentation: C# Operators and ^ Operator

The documentation explicitly states that ^, when used with boolean operands, is a boolean operator.

"for the bool operands, the ^ operator computes the same result as the inequality operator !=".

(And as noted in another answer, that's exactly what you want).

You can also bitwise-xor integer operands with ^.

Conditional xor should work like this:

true xor false = true
true xor true = false
false xor true = true
false xor false = false

But this is how the != operator actually works with bool types:

(true != false) // true
(true != true) // false
(false != true) // true
(false != false) // false

So as you see, the nonexistent ^^ can be replaced with existing !=.

In C#, conditional operators only execute their secondary operand if necessary.

Since an XOR must by definition test both values, a conditional version would be silly.

Examples:

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