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Re: boolean statement

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On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:04:55 -0400, Eric Sosman
<esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:

>On 10/14/2012 8:44 PM, K wrote:
>> Why does my boolean statement have an error message next to it in eclipse?
>
>     Probably because the variable `eachKidGetsTen' is not used.
>It is given a value, but that value is never therafter consulted.

     (Your print statement does not refer to it.)

>     (For future reference: When you have a question about an
>"error message," it is a good idea to quote the exact text of
>the message.  In this instance I imagine there was no text at
>all, but still: Some description of the "error message" would
>have been a good idea.  As it is, I'm just guessing -- And, as
>SH taught us, "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you
>have all the evidence."  But since I theorize ante-factually
>only because you force me to, the offense is not mine but yours.
>Off with your head!)

     What he said.

>> public class boolean1 {
>>
>> 	public static void main(String[] args) {
>> 		int gumballs;
>> 		int kids;
>> 		int gumballsPerKid;
>> 		boolean eachKidGetsTen;
>> 		
>> 		gumballs = 140;
>> 		kids = 15;
>> 		gumballsPerKid = gumballs / kids;
>> 		
>> 		System.out.print("True of False? ");
>> 		System.out.println("Each kid gets 10 gumballs");
>> 		eachKidGetsTen = gumballsPerKid >= 10;
>> 		System.out.println("eachKidGetsTen");
>
>     If you removed the " marks, I bet it would pacify Eclipse.

     Specifically,
          eachKidGetsTen
and
          "eachKidGetsTen"
are two very different things that just happen to resemble each other
textually.

>> 	}
>>
>> }

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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boolean statement K <kalezwe@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 17:44 -0700
  Re: boolean statement glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-10-15 00:57 +0000
    Re: boolean statement K <kalezwe@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 18:25 -0700
      Re: boolean statement Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 21:34 -0700
      Re: boolean statement Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-10-15 06:54 +0000
  Re: boolean statement Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-14 21:04 -0400
    Re: boolean statement Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-14 18:52 -0700
      Re: boolean statement K <kalezwe@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 19:55 -0700
        Re: boolean statement Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-14 20:10 -0700
        Re: boolean statement Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-15 08:20 -0400
          Re: boolean statement Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-15 09:15 -0700
  Re: boolean statement Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-14 22:41 -0700
    Re: boolean statement Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-15 09:15 -0700
  Re: boolean statement Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-10-16 01:10 -0700

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