Nested if-else behaviour without braces

Question

Consider the following unformatted nested if-else Java code

if (condition 1)
if (condition 2)
action 1;
else
action 2;

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Answer 1

You can try it and find that the else applies to the inner if:

http://ideone.com/iBorYi

This is a good reason not to write code like this. It's very hard to read and understand what is happening.