False boolean = True?

Question

I found this code in a book and I executed it in Netbeans:

boolean b = false;
if(b = true) {
    System.out.println(\"true\");
} else {
    System.out.printl         


        

Answer 1

if (b = true) assigns the value true to b, and then acts on that true value. That's the danger of C-like languages, that if you leave out the second = when you meant to compare, you get an assignment instead, and an unexpected result.