Bruce Eckel has a good aticle about comparing C++ and java in his book("Think in Java"). However, when he talk about the pointer, his word is really ambique. Can anybody give any insight about the "Pointer" issue in Java. " The Java promoter initially said "No Pointer", ...then they say " Restricted Pointer". Thanks, Frank
Originally posted by Frank Zheng: Bruce Eckel has a good aticle about comparing C++ and java in his book("Think in Java"). However, when he talk about the pointer, his word is really ambique. Can anybody give any insight about the "Pointer" issue in Java. " The Java promoter initially said "No Pointer", ...then they say " Restricted Pointer". Thanks, Frank
Java DOES have pointers. In fact they are called references in the Java Language Specification. "An object is a class instance or an array. The reference values (often just references) are pointers to these objects, and a special null reference, which refers to no object." JSL - 4.3.1
The Java promoter initially said "No Pointer" because Java pointers are different from the conventional C , C++ pointers in the sense that they give restricted capabilities. For instance, u can't add, or subract to a pointer. THis is because memory management is done by the JVM itself.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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