Java: Bitwise operations on booleans that are returned from Methods

Question

I'm looking at the following code snippet

bResult |= purgeDataForDIG(protocol);

The variable bResult is of type boolean.

Am I correct in assuming that the return of the method purgeDataForDig is OR'd with bResult and the result is then written back into bResult?

thanks Paul.

Answer 1

That is correct,

The above code snippet is functionally the same as:

res = purgeDataForDIG(protocol);
bResult = bResult | res;