NumericToBooleanCoercion

DRAFT

Observed

Correction

Here is what's right.

Java strictly separates numeric and boolean types. There is no implicit coercion, and there are not even explicit casts.

int i = 0;
boolean b;

b = i; // illegal (no coercion)
b = (boolean)i; // illegal cast

As Section 4.2.5 of the Java Language Specification describes, to convert a number to a boolean, one can use comparison operators:

if (i != 0) {
  ...
}