Javascript-like & and | (simpler default values)

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In Kustom, if() treats "" and 0 as false, and everything else as true. & and | treat 1 as true and everything else as false. Additionally, when given one or two string arguments, these operators concatenate both their sides with the operator symbol in the middle, i.e. "a" | "b" -> "a|b".

I propose & and | should work like && and || do in Javascript. They should treat "" and 0 as false, everything else as true (would make them consistent with if()).

| would return the first non-falsy argument it is given, or the last argument if all are falsy:

0 | a        -> a
0 | ""       -> ""
"" | 0       -> 0
0 | "" | a   -> a
a | b | c    -> a

& would return the first falsy argument it is given, or the last argument if all are truthy:

0 & a        -> 0
0 & ""       -> 0
"" & 0       -> ""
a & b & 0    -> 0
a & b & c    -> c

This enables easy default values:
instead of

if(bp(vibrant, mi(cover)), bp(vibrant, mi(cover)), #FFFFFF)

you’d simply write

bp(vibrant, mi(cover)) | #FFFFFF

I’m sure more interesting uses for this would be found too, but just the default values and consistency with if() are worth it, in my opinion.
 

EDIT: Simple solution for returning 0 instead of dividing by 0:

#divby & (#number / #divby)

If #divby is 0, the & returns 0. Otherwise the result of the division is returned.

EDIT: Concatenating text with additional decorations only if it isn’t empty:

"segment" + (#text & " - " + #text) + " - another segment"
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