What is short-circuit evaluation of Boolean expressions?

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Short-circuit evaluation is a mechanism in Java that allows the early termination of the evaluation of a compound Boolean expression. This occurs when two Boolean expressions are joined by the && operator when the first expression evaluates to false. The evaluation short-circuits because no matter what the value of the second expression is, the expression will evaluate to false. When two Boolean expressions are joined by the || operator, if the first expression evaluates to true, then the evaluation will short circuit because the expression will always evaluate to true no matter what the second expression evaluates to.

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