I'm pretty sure Java does have precendence in the order in which terms are evaluated. It's what allows us to do stuff like this where we can "nest" statements and change multiply fields of the code without worrying about the order in which it happens.

https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/11precedence/

edit: I agree that it's not best practice, definitely shouldn't be used in a real-world application, but for a simple kata it's useable.