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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: boolean statement
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:57:10 +0000 (UTC)
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K <kalezwe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does my boolean statement have an error message next to it in eclipse?

It should be a warning, not an error, but you never use the value
of the variable. Eclipse nicely tells you that you might have 
forgotten something.

-- glen

> 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");

>        }