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About shift operator.

 
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Hi friends check out following code;

Why does the compiler gives an error at line 8 & not on line no.7?
What is difference between them?
But both gives same o/p for int.(i.e 127 & 31)


public class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
byte b = 127 ; //same for short.
System . out . println ( b) ;
b>>=2; //doesn't gives an error. line7.
// b=b>>2; //gives an error,'possible loss of precision'. line 8
System . out . println (b) ;
}

}



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Shubha.
 
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In line 7, it's a compound assignment operator. Compound assignment operator lets you add to the value without doing the explicit cast. But in straight assignments operator (line 8) as right hand side results an "int", explicit cast is needed.
 
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