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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Assigning void
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:05:00 +0000 (UTC)
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Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

(snip)

>> (server.getConnectionType() == ConnectionType.ACTIVE) ?
>> ftp.enterLocalActiveMode() : ftp.enterLocalPassiveMode();

(snip)

> Others have pointed you to the specification.
> I don't know why it can't be a shorthand if-then-else statement too.

Java isn't C.

Java allows for method calls that return a value to ignore the
return value, but other expressions that don't use the value
seem not to be allowed.

2+2;

is legal C, but not Java. 

-- glen