String.equals() argument ordering

Question

I recently received a downvote for using the following in a recent answer:

String word = ...;
if (\"s\".equals(word) || \"y\".equals(word)

Answer 1

yoda condition is where oup put the literal in front of the variable.

word.equals("s") is read as "word equals s"

"s".equals(word) a human reads as "s equals word"

Our brains read the first example much better and the code is clearer.

the only reason imho to use yoda conditions is to prevent assignment as in "if (42 = i)" instead of "if(42 == i)"