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Conditional && will not evaluate the right-hand operand if the left-hand operand is false.

public class MainClass {

  public static void main(String[] arg) {
    int value = 8;
    int count = 10;
    int limit = 11;

    if (++value % 2 == 0 & ++count < limit) {
      System.out.println("here");
      System.out.println(value);
      System.out.println(count);
    }
    System.out.println("there");
    System.out.println(value);
    System.out.println(count);
  }
}

there
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