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In particular, if Java ever gets another ternary operator, people who use the term "conditional operator" will still be correct and unambiguous - unlike those who just say "ternary operator". Yes, the phrase "ternary operator" has stuck - my answer is part of an effort to "unstick" it, just as I try to correct the claim that "objects are passed by reference".
All the answers here are great but, just to illustrate where this comes from, for questions like this it's good to go to the source: the Java Language Specification. Section 15:23, Conditional-And operator (&&), says: The && operator is like & (§15.22.2), but evaluates its right-hand operand only if the value of its left-hand operand is true.
Apr 26, 2012 · This is the ternary conditional operator, which can be used anywhere, not just the print statement. It's sometimes just called "the ternary operator", but it's not the only ternary operator, just the most common one. Here's a good example from Wikipedia demonstrating how it works: A traditional if-else construct in C, Java and JavaScript is ...
Jun 7, 2011 · This is a one-line shorthand for an if-else statement. It's called the conditional operator. 1 Here is an example of code that could be shortened with the conditional operator:
Sep 23, 2012 · For the first question, you can indeed use the ternary operator, but a simpler solution would be to use a String[] with the month descriptions, and then subscript this array:
Oct 25, 2010 · I know there's a lot of answers here, but they all seem a bit confusing. So after doing some research from the Java oracle study guide, I've come up with three different scenarios of when to use && or &. The three scenarios are logical AND, bitwise AND, and boolean AND. Logical AND: Logical AND (aka Conditional AND) uses the && operator. It's ...
Apr 10, 2012 · OR operator is a kind of a conditional operators, which is represented by | symbol. It returns either true or false value based on the state of the variables i.e. the operations using conditional operators are performed between the two boolean expressions.
Using the conditional operator you can rewrite the above example in a single line like this: max = (a > b) ? a : b; (a > b) ? a : b; is an expression which returns one of two values, a or b.
Nov 18, 2015 · The ?? operator in C# might be best termed the "coalesce" operator; you can chain several expressions and it will return the first that isn't null. Unfortunately, Java doesn't have it. I think the best you could do is use the ternary operator to perform null checks and evaluate an alternative to the entire expression if any member in the chain is null:
It's the conditional operator. Some people call it the ternary operator, but that's really just saying how many operands it has. In particular, a future version of Java could (entirely reasonably) introduce another ternary operator - whereas the name of the operator is the conditional operator. See section 15.25 of the language specification:
