Boolean expressions in Java

Question

I have a question about the meaning (evaluation) of Boolean variables in return statements in Java.

I know that:

if (var) { ... }

i

Answer 1

It's not an "implicit assumption," it's what the compiler's doing. The b < a is just an expression, the same as if it were used for an if statement. The expression evaluates to a boolean, which is then returned.

Also noteworthy, you seem to interchange boolean and Boolean as though they're the same, but they're actually not. boolean is the primitive form while Boolean is an Object that wraps a boolean.