Two conditions in one if statement does the second matter if the first is false?

Question

Okay, so I have this piece of code tested and I found there isn\'t any exception thrown out.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    int[] list = {1,2}         


        

Answer 1

Yes, both usages are semantically equivalent... That is, unless the length is > 2, then is the code allowed to access more than the 2nd element.

In the first case, what matters is the && operator, think of it as: If first condition is true then apply second condition.

The subsequent condition also has an implicit "then" clause

if length greater than two
 then access third element