How does a for loop check its conditions in Java?

Question

My question has to do with the order in which java checks the conditions of a for loop when there is a print statement in the \"conditions\" of the loop. It

Answer 1

for (int i = -1; i < n; System.out.print(i + " ")) 
{
    i++;
}

First, i is initialized to-1 (only happens once), and i < n, so we go into the loop. i is incremented inside of the for loop, so now i == 0. We then go to the print statement. Repeat.

The expected behavior that you want would require something like:

for (int i = -1; i < n; i++) 
{
    System.out.print(i + " ")
}

Here's a reference for the for statement.