clarification if condition

[Sekhar Choudary]

Hi ,
this is my code

    
class Titanic{
public static void main(String[] args){
Boolean b1=true;
Boolean b2=false;
Boolean b3=true;
if((b1&b2)|(b2&b3)&b3)        //first if 
  System.out.println("alpha");
if((b1=false)|(b1&b3)|(b1|b2))//second if
System.out.println("beta");
}//main
}//class

Can anyone let me know how to interpret second if condition.also what will be result here in second if.
Thanks.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

what you get that time of execution?

[Ankit Garg]

Boolean b1=true;
Boolean b2=false;
Boolean b3=true;

if((b1=false)|(b1&b3)|(b1|b2))
System.out.println("beta");


Here first of all this will be executed.
(b1=false)
This is because expressions are evaluated from left to right
so b1 will become false. Since this will result in a boolean value so there will be no compile time error.
So the first value will be false

Then (b1&b3) will be evaluated. Since b1 is false so it will result in false.

Then (b1|b2) will be evalued. Since both b1 and b2 are false, so this will result in false.

So at last the whole condition will becode

false|false|false

which will result in false so beta will not be displayed.

Also your code has declarations Boolean and not boolean. Although this will work but I just want to remind you...
[ August 08, 2008: Message edited by: Ankit Garg ]