Please Help: bizarre output

[Dibbo Khan]

Hello everyone, I have no idea why the output is 343 instead of 344, this is question 65 of the epractice exams for J2SE 5.0, could someone please help explain why this is the case to me, I think all the autoboxing syntax is correct??? Thank you to everyone for your anticipated help.

public class X {


static long story;

public static void main(String[] args) {
if(story == 0)
{
Long tale = 343L;
story = go(tale);
}

System.out.print(story);
}

static long go(Long t)
{
return t++;
}

}

[nagaraj raja]

hai,
here u used post increment ie return i++ means first it will perform operation then i will print the increment value here if u use instead of i++ use ++i then it will increment by 1 and print ok

[K Krishna Kishore]

1. public class X 
2. {
3. static long story;
4. public static void main(String[] args) 
5. {
5.        if(story == 0)
6.        {
7.           Long tale = 343L;
8.           story = go(tale);
9.        }
10.       System.out.print(story);
11.}
12.
13.static long go(Long t)
14.{
15.       return t++;
16.}
17.}

Line 8 calls go method supplying the value of 343 to variable "t".

Line 15 returns the value of t to the main method. Now since the post increment operator is used it first returns the value and the incremets the value of t. So variable story in the main method gets the value of 343 and then varibale t becomes 344 but dies soon after due to its scope. If you want the output to be 344 you need to use the pre increment opetator (++t) which would first increment the value of the variable "t" to 344 and then return it.

Hope this helps.

[Dibbo Khan]

Thank you both very much for your help

[Mahesh Kumar Kumar]

It Doesn't Compile

[Dibbo Khan]

It does compile, just make sure your class name and file name are the same.

public class X {

static long story;

public static void main(String[] args) {
if(story == 0)
{
Long tale = 343L;
story = go(tale);
}

System.out.print(story);
}

static long go(Long t)
{
return t++;
}

}

This was compiled using Netbeans 4.1

[Kayalvizhi Umashankar]

It will compile if "Long" is changed to "long"

Kayal

[Dharmesh Gangani]

Yes, It will compile only if "Long" is changed to "long".

[Dibbo Khan]

This is for SCJP 5.0,

Long is valid because of autoboxing, I used Netbeans 4.1 which uses JDK 5