How can a Java variable be different from itself?
I am wondering if this question can be solved in Java (I'm new to the language). This is the code:
class Condition {
// you can change in the main
public static void main(String[] args) {
int x = 0;
if (x == x) {
System.out.println("Ok");
} else {
System.out.println("Not ok");
}
}
}
I received the following question in my lab: How can you skip the first case (i.e. make the x == x
condition false) without modifying the condition itself?
One simple way is to use Float.NaN
:
float x = Float.NaN; // <--
if (x == x) {
System.out.println("Ok");
} else {
System.out.println("Not ok");
}
Not ok
You can do the same with Double.NaN
.
From JLS §15.21.1. Numerical Equality Operators ==
and !=
:
Floating-point equality testing is performed in accordance with the rules of the IEEE 754 standard:
If either operand is NaN, then the result of
==
isfalse
but the result of!=
istrue
.Indeed, the test
x!=x
istrue
if and only if the value ofx
is NaN....
int x = 0;
if (x == x) {
System.out.println("Not ok");
} else {
System.out.println("Ok");
}