INDEX

binary

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continued

)

Bunyan, John

, 823

representation, verification of classes and

Burke, Edmund

, 263

interfaces, 220

Burton, Robert

BitSet

 class

BitSet

, 618

 class

exception, 213

blocks

lard, ix

See also

 control flow; statements

but not phrase

(chapter), 263

grammar notation use, 10

definite assignment, 393

Butler, Samuel

, 530

LALR(1) grammar productions, 446

butter

, 530

specification and execution of, 265

Byron, Lord

, 823

Bobrow, Daniel G.

, 6

byte

 type

body

See also

 integral types; numbers; primitive

See also

 declarations

types

class

ByteArrayInputStream

 class, 689

declarations in, 138

ByteArrayOutputStream

 class, 727

term definition, 138

value range, 31

constructor, 178

binary compatibility considerations, 257

C

interface, declarations, 185

C

, 1, 2, 6

method, 164

C++

, 1, 2, 6

binary compatibility considerations, 257

Caesar, Julius

, 352

boolean

caller

See also

 numbers

of a statement expression, term definition,

Boolean

 class, 469

204

booleanValue

 method, of class

Boolean

,

canRead

 method

470

of class

File

, 755

literals, term definition and specification, 23

canWrite

 method

operators, 36

of class

File

, 756

type and values, term definition and

capacity

 method

specification, 36

of class

StringBuffer

, 551

Bovik, Harry

, 126

of class

Vector

, 658

Bowie, David

, 509

capacityIncrement

 field

Box, G. E. P.

, 650

of class

Vector

, 655

brackets (

[]

)

carriage return (

CR

)

array type declaration, 194, 266, 37

escape sequence, 27

syntactical ambiguities, handling of, 311

handling in a

break

 statement

character literal, 24

See also

 control flow

string literal, 25

definite assignment, 397

as a line terminator, not input character, 14

as reason for abrupt completion, 264

casting

specification, 283

See also

 conversion

brown paper packages

, 126

boolean

, 37

buffers

ClassCastException

 class, 611

buf

 field

conversion context, 53

of class

BufferedInputStream

, 699

specification, 67

of class

BufferedOutputStream

, 732

floating pointing types, 33

of class

ByteArrayInputStream

, 689

integral types, 33

of class

ByteArrayOutputStream

, 727

reference types, 67

buffer

 field, of class

run time testing, 303

StringBufferInputStream

, 692

standard exceptions,

ClassCastException

,

BufferedInputStream

 class, 699

209

BufferedOutputStream

 class, 732

to

void

, not permitted, 272

770