Question mark colon operator question

[orchid]

I inherited some code that I simply cannot sort out. Can anyone tell me why this prints off X88. It makes no sense to me.
Thanks

Code:

char x = 'X';
int i = 0;
System.out.print(true  ? x : 0);
System.out.print(false ? i : x);

[goldhouse]

This is an interesting operator in Java.

Code:

class TernaryOperator{

     public static void main(String[] args){
          int value1 = 1;
          int value2 = 2;
          int result;
          boolean someCondition = true;
          result = someCondition ? value1 : value2;
          System.out.println("First Result " +result);

          someCondition = false;
          result = someCondition ? value1 : value2;


          System.out.println("Second  Result " +result);

     }
}
Output:
First Result 1
Second Result 2

The code is self explanatory

[orchid]

It is not terribly readable. Why woulc anyone use it.

[goldhouse]

I forgot the answer the question ,BTW In java the expressions are evaluated from left to right
hence first one will evaluated as character
and second one will be an int type. The ascii value of 'X' is 88

Say what will happen


System.out.println( 2 + 2 + "2") // print 4
System.out.println( "" +2 + 2 ) // print 22