Operator Precedence and concatenation

Today a colleague of mine was having a problem with running a JPQL query which for some reason failed with a rather cryptic exception.

The code looked something like:

String query = "select s from SomeEntity e "
        + "join e.something s "
        + "where something "
        + variable == null ? "and something" : "and other";
System.out.println(query); // What is the output?

Even experienced developers were puzzled by this and we had a good laugh after the mystery was unsolved :)

Operator Precedence

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