condition

[Kareem Mesbah]

hi
please help me understand this piece of code

boolean condition = false;
while (!condition){
//do something
}

if(!condition){
// do something
}

I know that !true means false and vice versa
I also have some statements which are familiar for me like
if (something == true)
or while (something == true)
but actually I don't understand the previous piece of code
which is equal to "!condition" ??
I know it means while (true) but does this mean that the loop won't terminate ?
and what about if(true)? which is equal to true ?

[Tolls]

The loop will only not terminate if there is no code in the loop to terminate it.
This could be a 'break;' command or some code changing the value of 'condition' to 'true'.
What happens with the if statement is entirely dependent on how the loop exited.

[Kareem Mesbah]

what if you considered them as separate pieces? I mean what if the if statement was dependant (no loops before it).

[Tolls]

Then the if condition would be utterly pointless as it would always be true.

[Kareem Mesbah]

so if !condition becomes false this should breaks out of the code and it wouldn't execute the if's body, right ?

[quad64bit]

so if !condition becomes false this should breaks out of the code and it wouldn't execute the if's body, right ?

It doesn't break, but you are correct, it merely skips the if body because the result of the boolean evaluation is false.