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This noncompliant code example prints 100 as the size of the HashSet rather than the expected result (some value between 0 and 50). The combination of values of types short and int in the second argument of the conditional expression (the operation i-1) causes the result to be an int, as specified by the normal integer promotion rules. Consequently, the Short object in the third argument is autounboxed unboxed into a short, which is then promoted into an int. The result of the conditional expression is then autoboxed into an object of type Integer. Because the HashSet contains only values of type Short, the call to HashSet.remove() has no effect.
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