Can you explain me how the static works in this example?

[shoeb sayyed]

package Connectivity;

public class Test {

       private static int j = 0;                               //j=0(initially)

       private static boolean methodB(int k) {
               j += k;                                               //depends on k
               return true;
       }

       public static void methodA(int  i) {
         boolean b;
         b = i < 10 | methodB (4);         //here the static value j should be 4
         b = i < 10 || methodB (8);       //but the final value of static j should be 8.... what happens over here?
       }

        public static void main (String args[]) {
             methodA (0);
             System.out.println(j);
             boolean b;
             b=0<10||true;
             System.out.println();
             System.out.println(b);
        }
}

[Vasiq Molvizadah]

The reason why you are getting the value of j as 4 is because ....in the following line :

  b = i < 10 || methodB (8); //but the final value of static j should be 8.... what happens over here?   

you used an Conditional OR Operator ..this operator exhibit "short-circuiting" behavior, which means that the second operand is evaluated only if needed. In this case the first condition is i< 10 which is true ...so it won't check the second operand.....and that's the reason why you are getting the value of j as 4....

Hope this is the answer to your question...

[Devaka Cooray]

Howdy shoeb, welcome to JavaRanch
Please UseCodeTags when you post a source code in future. It's unnecessarily hard to read the code otherwise.
For now, I've added the code tags on your post for you.

[shoeb sayyed]

Hey thanks

i would remember that next time