15.19 Relational Operators

The relational operators are syntactically left-associative (they group left-to- right), but this fact is not useful; for example, a<b<c parses as (a<b)<c, which is always a compile-time error, because the type of a<b is always boolean and < is not an operator on boolean values.

RelationalExpression:

	ShiftExpression

	RelationalExpression < ShiftExpression

	RelationalExpression > ShiftExpression

	RelationalExpression <= ShiftExpression

	RelationalExpression >= ShiftExpression

	RelationalExpression instanceof ReferenceType

The type of a relational expression is always boolean.