Re: Java Float newbie problem

From: Casey Hawthorne (caseyh_at_istar.ca)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:09:26 GMT

The book "JAVA for Programmers" Douglas A. Lyon makes a distinction
between primitive data types and reference data types.

Is this standard terminology?

And second: since JAVA does not support programmer defined operator
overloading -- one must use the ".add" notation for adding to
reference data types/objects.

Regards,
Casey

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