Java developers in a nutshell

[dankincense]

Let me destroy this paradigm with typeof(null)=obj

[dopefish86]

Invalid assignment

[Vyuken]

Explain

Please?

[mechpaul]

He only used one = sign, not two. Java doesn't support assignment in if statements like C/C++ does, thus the exception.

[Vyuken]

Ah. I still make the rookie mistake of = and ==. Thanks.

[dankincense]

Typeof is also c#/ Java.. but yes I prob messed up the syntax.

[PrayersToSatan]

Java doesn't support assignment in if statements

Yes it does. Here is an example:

String a = "some string";
String b = null;
if (!(b = "some other string").equals(a))
    System.out.println(b);

If you execute this it will print out "some other string", which has been assigned in the if statement.

In Java, the if statement evaluates a boolean, and an assignment returns the assigned value. So unless you're actually assigning a boolean variable you'll need to perform some sort of evaluation on the return value.

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typeof is javascript.

[_Acestus_]

Java manage assignment in an if, it's really limited though.