doubt related to output involving precedence of | and &&

[Jolly Tiwari]

Hi! every one,

I have a doubt related to precedence order in the following code snippet.


public class PrecedenceTrial {
public static void main(String...args)
{



if(fun1() && fun2() | fun3())
{
System.out.println("inside if block");
}


}


public static boolean fun1()
{
System.out.println("inside fun 1");
return true;
}




public static boolean fun2()
{
System.out.println("inside fun 2");
return true;
}


public static boolean fun3()
{
System.out.println("inside fun 3");
return false;
}



}

when i am executing the program i get

inside fun 1
inside fun 2
inside fun 3
inside if block
but i am not able justify this As | (Bitwise OR operator) is having higher precedence than && (logical AND operator) So, fun2() should be associated with | operator and fun2() and fun3() should be evaluated first as they are operands for | operator and && should be evaluated afterwards.
but i am not getting the result as per to my view.

Please clarify it and correct me wherever i am wrong.

Regards

Jolly

[Mihai Fonoage]

Hi Jolly,

Please read this previous post.

Mihai Fonoage

[winay Kumar]

Hi Jolly,

what you are saying is correct. '|' has higher precedence then '&&' and Associativity is left to right. That means the expression left to | will evaluate first.

In this example "if(fun1() && fun2() | fun3())" expression "fun1() && fun2()" is left to that | so it will evaluates first then fun3(). To evaluate this "fun1() && fun2()" first it will execute fun1(),if its true then it will execute fun2()

i hope this will clear your doubt
[ July 16, 2008: Message edited by: winay Kumar ]

[Jolly Tiwari]

Thanks Mihai, for sharing such a nice link .

Now i understood that evaluation must happen before applying precedence rules and in exceptional cases like operators && || and ?: ,right side
operands can be skipped for evaluation due to short circuit behaviour.


Regards

Jolly