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Re: Java puzzler

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On 05/11/2011 04:44 AM, Gábor Bakos wrote:
> It worked as specified. I just found unexpected that there is an implicit cast to the type of the variable.
> For example there are not compiling:
> int x = 0.5;
> int y = 0;
> y = y + 0.5;
> These are no strange for me.
> Although the thing that
> int x = 0;
> x += .5;
> compiles without an error or warning it was unexpected for me. I do not see the usecase for the implicit cast there. (BTW the result I got was the correct 0 .)
> Maybe it is just me who finds this strange.

It is what it is.  The Designers felt, obviously, that primitive numeric 
conversions shouldn't cause that kind of trouble.

"Strange" is not an engineering assessment.  It's some kind of vague crap that 
cannot be defended or refuted.  Take a Zanax and calm down.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Re: Java puzzler Gábor Bakos <aborgabor@gmail.com> - 2011-05-11 01:44 -0700
  Re: Java puzzler Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-11 05:24 -0700
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