Is there a post-assignment operator for a boolean?

Question

Hi is something like this possible in Java?

boolean flag = true;
if(flag) return flag = false; // return true and assign false to flag afterwards

Answer 1

Have a look at java.util.concurrent.AtomicBoolean. I haven't tried this, but it might give the behavior you're asking about:

AtomicBoolean flag = new AtomicBoolean(true);
System.out.println("First, I'm " + flag.get());
Boolean was = flag.getAndSet(false);
System.out.println("I was " + was + " but now I'm " +
    Flag.get());