Java has a logical AND operator.
Java has a logical OR operator.
Java has a logical NOT operator.
Java has no logical XOR operator, according to sun. I would like to define one.
As a method it is simply defined as follows:
public static boolean logicalXOR(boolean x, boolean y) {
return ( ( x || y ) && ! ( x && y ) );
}
This method is called in the following way:
boolean myVal = logicalXOR(x, y);
I would much rather have an operator, used as follows:
boolean myVal = x ^^ y;
I can't find anything on how to go about defining a new operator in Java. Where should I start?
Java does have a logical XOR operator, it is ^ (as in a ^ b
).
Apart from that, you can't define new operators in Java.
Edit: Here's an example:
public static void main(String[] args) {
boolean[] all = { false, true };
for (boolean a : all) {
for (boolean b: all) {
boolean c = a ^ b;
System.out.println(a + " ^ " + b + " = " + c);
}
}
}
Output:
false ^ false = false false ^ true = true true ^ false = true true ^ true = false