The Java tutorials here mention that &= is an assignment operator but doesn’t seem to mention what it does.
What does &= do?
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is equivalent to
which in turn is a
aandxin the case whereaandxare integers or aaandxbeingbooleans (which means thatxwill be evaluated in any case here, even ifaisfalse).There are several other binary operators which can be used with similar semantics, like
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