Introduction to Operators and Expression in Java • 59
Java also supports chained assignment, i.e., assigning a value to one of the variables in the chain and
then from this to the next one in the chain and so on. The rightmost value in the chain must be assigned the
value as assignment operator works from right to left. For example:
int x, y, z;
x5y5z515;
In this example, fi rst 15 will be assigned to z, and then the value of z will be assigned to y and at the
end, the value of y will be assigned to x. In terms of chain assignment, it can be thought that after assigning
the value 15 to z, it returns a value which is given to next ...
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