questions from Marcus Green tutorial

[kamilla miesak]

Hi,
I have two questions regarding the examples taken from Marcus Green tutorial.
Re #1:
public class MyIf{
public static void main(String argv[]){
MyIf mi = new MyIf();
}
MyIf(){
boolean b = false;
if(b=false){
System.out.println("The value of b is"+b);
}
}
}
Why does this code compile but produces no output?
I thougth it would print "The value of b is false".
Re# 2
public class MySwitch{
public static void main(String argv[]){
MySwitch ms= new MySwitch();
ms.amethod();
}
public void amethod(){
char k=10;
switch(k){
default:
System.out.println("This is the default output");
break;
case 10:
System.out.println("ten");
break;
case 20:
System.out.println("twenty");
break;
}
}
}
Can someone explain the line: char k = 10;
How come it's legal?
Thanks a lot!

[Richa Jeetah]

Hi
for your question :
Re #1:
public class MyIf{
public static void main(String argv[]){
MyIf mi = new MyIf();
}
MyIf(){
boolean b = false;
if(b=false){ // line 1
System.out.println("The value of b is"+b);
}
}
}
in line 1 you are assigning false to b, and since if condition runs only if its true.
the result you are desiring will be possible if you replace line 1 with 'if(b==false){'
Hope this helps

[Ron Newman]

For question 2:
A char is an unsigned 16-bit integer, so any assignment of a small enough integer constant is OK.
char c0 = -1; // illegal
char c1 = 10; // OK
char c2 = 32767; // OK
char c3 = 32768; // OK
char c4 = 65535; // OK
char c5 = 65536; // illegal

[kamilla miesak]

Thanks to you both! Got it!

[Barkat Mardhani]

Hi Kamila:
One more strange thing I noticed about (b=false) assignment is that the expression itself evaluates to false. And for (b=true) the expression itself evaluates to true. Later will produce the printout in your code even though it is an assignment and NOT comparision...
Thanks
Barkat

[Ron Newman]

An assignment expression always evaluates to the value assigned.

[Rony Donald]

Are these exams being updated for SCJP1.4???