Why can't I use the ternary ? operator to select between two function calls?

Question

I was recently programming and ran into an issue using the ? : operand. Here\'s my code.

    Random rand = new Random();
    for(int x = 0; x < 3; x++) {
         


        

Answer 1

a == 0 ? vertShip(board) : horizShip(board); // is an expression
if (a == 0) vertShip(board); else horizShip(board); // is a statement

Compare:

if (condition) 
{
    execute statement(s)
}
else
{
    execute statement(s)
}

With:

 expression1 ? expression2 : expression3 

Use the appropriate construct.