Correcting the notion that Java's assignment statements are evaluated "right to left."

RightToLeftTest.java

/**
 * This program proves that expressions are evaluated left to right; assignment
 * statements, therefore, are evaluated left-to-right on the right side of the
 * equals sign (since that's just an expression) and then assigned to the
 * thing to the left of the equals sign.
 * 
 * So when a professor tells you that assignment statements are evaluated
 * right-to-left, it doesn't mean each symbol in the statement is evaluated
 * in the order from right to left, just that the stuff on the right is assigned
 * to the stuff on the left.
 * 
 * @author Richard Carter
 */
public class RightToLeftTest {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// Clearly in the following statement, if it were evaluated totally from
		// right-to-left, then Java would execute numberTwo, and then numberOne,
		// and assign it to 'three'. Each of those two methods prints their
		// number before returning it, so you will be able to see in the output
		// which one executes first.
		int three = numberOne() + numberTwo();
		
		System.out.println("answer is "+three);
	}
	
	/**
	 * Print "one" and then return 1
	 * @return 1
	 */
	public static int numberOne() {
		System.out.println("one");
		return 1;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Print "two" and then return 2
	 * @return 2
	 */
	public static int numberTwo() {
		System.out.println("two");
		return 2;
	}
}

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