When I write the following code I get a weird answer with &:

    x <- 5
    y <- 4 
    z <- 2
    
     x & z > y
     z & x > y
     x | z > y
     z | x > y

When I run it, the following comes as a result:

[1] FALSE [1] TRUE [1] TRUE [1] TRUE

The & operator is not giving the same FALSE answer as it should do when I swap x and y, why is that (note when I use brackets everything comes in order correctly)?

I was expecting the first two answers to be FALSE as one of the variables are smaller than y and both should be larger than y when I use &.