Can someone please tell me why this code causes a compilation error? <html> <body> <%! int i; %> <%! i = 12; %> Value of i is: <%= ++i %> </body> </html> Isn't <%! int i; %> <%! i = 12; %> equivalent to <%! int i = 12; %>
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Carl Trusiak
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<%! %> is the declaration inside this you can place methods or anything you can place OUTSIDE a method in a java class. The following is illegal in Java
This is exactly the type of thing that you are trying to do. You can make this right by removing the !
hi, <%! int i; %> <%! i = 12; %> is not equivalent to <%! int i = 12; %> why? <%! i = 12; %> doesn't satisfy with the defination of a declaration because there's not an identifier for var i. what you intended to do is more like a scriptlet <% i = 12; %>
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Sohail Nasim
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How about this one <%! int i; %> <% i = 3; %> <% j = 8; %> <%! int j = 5; %> i is <%=i%> j is <%=j%> What is the output?
Goan Balchao
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That should be OK. This is because the declarations are assimilated and declared as instance variables in the page implementation class. So j is available to the code before it.
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