Java: bool + int

Question

Is there a way to make Java work with boolean/integer addition and evaluation? More specificly, C++ has an appropriate feature which shortens many if statements.

Answer 1

Code is more often read than written. While you can use the ternary operator, the semantic of this boils down to only increasing count if x equals y. So the most readable way to write this would be to use:

for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
   if (x == y) count++;

Doing tricks like count += (x==y) in other languages is imho already bad practices since it obfuscates the logic. Optimize for reading, not writing.