Presidence in an IF statement

[jon ruane]

As i understand: Conditional operators have higher presidence over Assignment operators, as the following example code shows:

public class Q10
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int i = 10;
int j = 10;
boolean b = false;

if( b = i == j)
System.out.println("True");
else
System.out.println("False");
}
}

(Prints out "True")


What i cant understand is why a compliation error is not thrown at the fact a boolean variable is having an int assigned to it in the IF statement. It doesnt even look like a legal IF statemnt, but it is!

If you place the code:

b = i anywhere else, the compiler picks up this illegal assignment.

Is the assignment being ignored because the conditional side of the IF statement is the only part the compiler deals with?

[Henry Wong]

What i cant understand is why a compliation error is not thrown at the fact a boolean variable is having an int assigned to it in the IF statement. It doesnt even look like a legal IF statemnt, but it is!

The reason it works is because...

As i understand: Conditional operators have higher presidence over Assignment operators,

The boolean variable "b" is *not* being assigned the value of "i", it is being assigned the boolean value of whether "i" is equal to "j". In this case, it is assigned the value of true.

Henry

[jon ruane]

oooooooooooooooooooooooh!

thanks very much!

[Urs Waefler]

Hi

Try this one:

public class Q10
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
int i = 10;
int j = 10;
boolean b = false;

b = i == j;
System.out.println(b);


}
}

It works fine.

First it compares i & j. The resulat is true. Then it assigns true to b.

Regards
Urs