Re: Iterating over an array style question

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:53:05 +0000
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.1011282049080.9671@urchin.earth.li>
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:

Here's an interesting example from JLS ?15.7 which makes clear how
evaluation order and operator precedence are quite different:

   class Test {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
           int a = 9;
           a += (a = 3); // first example
           System.out.println(a);


6!

           int b = 9;
           b = b + (b = 3); // second example


12!

           System.out.println(b);
       }
   }

prints:

   12
   12


Huh. You learn something new every day. On reflection, i'm glad it's 12,
because it means, i think, that a += b is always equivalent to a = a + b,
which strikes me as a good thing.

Personally, i never use += (except occasionally in for loop update
clauses), precisely because it trips up people who don't know every detail
of the language, like me.

tom

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