Marcus Green mock exam 3 Q1

[kmchow2]

Which of the following are legal statements?
1) float f=1/3;
2) int i=1/3;
3) float f=1.01;
4) double d=999d;
answer is 1,2,4
how come not only 4?

[Ajith Kallambella]

1) float f=1/3;
Is right because the type of 1/3 is int which can be converted to float without losing precision.
2) int i=1/3;
Strange it may seem, this is right too. The type of expression 1/3 happens to be int here and it gets converted to int i. Though the precision is lost, this is a valid expression.

3) float f=1.01;
You know why this is wrong. Integer literals with a decimal point in them are considered as double, so you need an explicit cast.
4) double d=999d;
Perfectly legal.
So the answers are 1,2,4.

Since there is nothing wrong with this question( and Marcus is ) I am moving this to SCJP forum

Ajith
[This message has been edited by Ajith Kallambella (edited August 29, 2000).]