nandini paruchuri

Welcome Jim Clarke, Jim Connors & Eric J. Bruno

Hi all:
I am getting really confused about assertion.
As I understood "assertion is a statement that enables you to test your assunptions about your program"
So if my assumptions are misassumed then why cannot I throe an exception instead of assertion.
May be I am missing something trivial.
Could someone help me out???
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nandini

Marlene:
After first while:127 -128
After second while:127 -127
After third while:255 -128
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nandini

Pradeep:
TIA --> Thanks in Advance
TIA
Nandini

Thanks for the answers.
Does that mean since main() is a static method...
it can only call static methods and can access static variables.

TIA
nandini

Hey..
Is the answer for above question C?
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nandini

Could anyone please explain me this...
Methods that are declared as static
1) Can only call other static members.
2)Can only access other static variables.
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Nandini

Did anyone read this book???.
How is it??
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nandini

Hello:
Java version on my computer is 1.4.1_01.
But it does not have any compiler i.e. javac.dll in bin.
Is this version only for deployment???
Suggest me some latest version of Java that I can install.
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Nandini

Pradeep:
Yeah it surely helps but I just wanted to understand the logic behind main() method not returning anything.
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nandini

Thanks Deep that was helpful

I do understand its the main() signature but I just wanted to know why??
I mean public and static make perfect sense but why void??
And how do we represent float and double in byte format i.e
i.e for integer 1 can represented in 0000 0001
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nandini

Hi all:
Are Java types float and double signed???
Why should the return type of main() method should always be "void"???
I kind of know answers for both the questions but I just want to confirm.
TIA
nandini