Re: operator * cannot be applied

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 19:06:05 GMT

Thanks Chris. Actually I knew that. I used "Cast" to see if anyone would clarify it for me. I knew I used the expression incorrectly but I didn't know why. Thanks again.

George Hester
__________________________________
"Chris Smith" wrote in message news:MPG.1ad85d78e3424af69899c6@news.pop4.net...
> George Hester wrote:
> > NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance();
> > double poundValue = nf.parse(amount).doubleValue();
> > String rate = getInitParameter("RATE");
> > double dblrate = nf.parse(rate).doubleValue();
> > poundValue *= dblrate;
> >
> > That casted the string rate to a double dblrate.
>
> Just to be picky about terminology; that did not cast the String to a
> double. Casting a String to a double is, in fact, impossible and always
> results in a compiler error. What it did was convert a String to a
> double.
>
> The word "cast" -- at least in Java, and in a number of other languages
> -- refers to a specific piece of language syntax -- namely:
>
> ( type ) expr
>
> Hopefully, that will save you some confusion in the future.
>
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