http://pastebin.com/5SUPUcqs

if (a ! true)

^should work, but doesn't compile

what makes you think it should work? it looks like a compile error to me.

! is a unary operator, meaning it only has one operand to the right. however, you have two operands there. so something isn't right.

it converts into:


then:


does that look good to you?

the if keyword requires an expression to return a single boolean value.

99% of the time you think the compiler is wrong is actually user error.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jun 18 2016 01:16pm

hmm ok

Yeah i knew it was unary which was why i didn't think it'd work, but my friend said otherwise haha

You are looking for

word, makes sense

what you're actually looking for is

if (!a)

I am curious why people are posting the code without the error that is thrown in the console?
the error is just as important as the code lol. I know its simple code but its always a good habit to post the error with the code.

This post was edited by umeshieee on Jun 19 2016 09:30am

I hope you realize `!a' and `a != true' equate to the same thing. There is no actuality for what they may be looking for.

What you're actually looking for is

if(!!!!a != !!true)

or

if(a^a)

or

if(!(a^a) != !!!(true^true))

Although due note that these equations are purely for sport and remember that anything xor itself will always be 0, thus they hold no logical meaning.

This post was edited by AbDuCt on Jun 19 2016 11:13am

dude said he was told he could use it as a unary operator
besides being redundant i think it's just an ugly thing to do writing equality comparisons for booleans
they should be named things like isAvailable, isContainedInGpsList, isWhatever so when you look at if statements it's just obvious you're checking whether something is true or not