Category "if-statement"

How is if/while condition evaluated when we use assignments instead of comparison?

I discovered this surprising thing while learning OCA/OCP for Java. Below is the first piece of code of which the if(test condition) part surprises me. public

Evaluate command line argument as boolean expression

I'm trying to take a string, passed as an argument, and evaluate it as a boolean expression in an if conditional statement. For example, the user invokes MyPro

Is an "if(...) return ...;" without "else" considered good style? [closed]

This code: if( someCondition ) return doSomething(); return doSomethingElse(); versus this code: if( someCondition ) return doSom