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Negated conditional expression

Reports conditional expressions which are negated with a prefix expression, as such constructions may be confusing.

There is a fix that propagates the outer negation to both branches.

Example:

!(i == 1 ? a : b)

After the quick-fix is applied:

i == 1 ? !a : !b

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023