Converting Boolean to Integer in Java without If-Statements

Question

I\'m wondering if there\'s a way to convert a boolean to an int without using if statements (as not to break the pipeline). For example, I could write

int bo         


        

Answer 1

I can't say I recommend this. It's both slower than the ternary operator by itself, and it's too clever to be called good programming, but there's this:

-Boolean.FALSE.compareTo(value)

It uses the ternary under the covers (a couple of method calls later), but it's not in your code. To be fair, I would be willing to bet that there's a branch somewhere in the Python execution as well (though I probably only bet a nickel ;) ).