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

You can use the ternary operator:

return b ? 1 : 0;

If this is considered an "if", and given this is a "puzzle", you could use a map like this:

return new HashMap() {{
    put(true, 1);
    put(false, 0);
}}.get(b);

Although theoretically the implementation of HashMap doesn't need to use an if, it actually does. Nevertheless, the "if" is not in your code.

Of course to improve performance, you would:

private static Map map = new HashMap() {{
    put(true, 1);
    put(false, 0);
}};

Then in the method:

return map.get(b);