Returning null as an int permitted with ternary operator but not if statement

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The compiler interprets null as a null reference to an Integer, applies the autoboxing/unboxing rules for the conditional operator (as described in the Java Language Specification, 15.25), and moves happily on. This will generate a NullPointerException at run time, which you can confirm by trying it.

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