For what types of A and B is the simple assignment statement A = B legal in C++ but not Java?

Question

Got this question in my homework, tried googling but no luck there either.

For what types of A and B is the simple assignment statement A = B legal in C++ but not Java?

Answer 1

Anything with a boolean assignment should do. In C++, true is any non-zero value. In Java, boolean is a type (and that type is checked). For example,

bool a = 1;

is legal C++. But

boolean a = 1;

is not legal Java. Also, as noted by @akuzmiykh the reverse is also true, that is

int a = true;

is legal C++, but not legal Java.