INDEX

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See also

 conversion; numbers

naming conventions, 107

primitive conversions

qualified, meaning of, 93

in assignment conversion context, 61

scope of, 120

in casting conversion context, 67

simple, meaning of, 93

not allowed in method invocation

unique, 125

conversion context, reasons for, 66

importance of, 125

specification, 55

parameters, naming conventions, 110

reference conversions, specification, 59

qualified

native

 modifier

access control and, 99

See also

 declarations; modifiers

fully, 105

methods

term definition, 79

binary compatibility considerations, 256

resolving references to, during resolution

declaration, 161

phase of linking, 221

semicolon as body of, 164

restrictions, types and subpackages, 114

not permitted in interface method

rules on being the same

declarations, 189

class members, 86

reasons why constructors cannot be, 178

fields, 86

NEGATIVE_INFINITY

 field

interface fields, 87

of class

Double

, 511

methods, 87

of class

Float

, 504

simple

NegativeArraySizeException

 class

, 611

scope of, 81

network

term definition, 79

standard exceptions

as subset of identifiers, 79

MalformedURLException

, 211

syntactic

ProtocolException

, 211

categories, 89

SocketException

, 211

classification of according to context, 90

UnknownHostException

, 211

term definition, 79

UnknownServiceException

, 211

type

newInstance

 method

context in which a name is classified as,

of class

Class

, 468

90

Newton, Sir Isaac

, 1

interface, scope of, 184

next

 method

qualified, meaning of, 94

of class

Random

, 648

simple, meaning of, 93

nextDouble

 method

variables, local, naming conventions, 110

of class

Random

, 649

NaN (Not a Number)

nextElement

 method

See also

 numbers

of class

StringTokenizer

, 653

comparison results, 35

of interface

Enumeration

, 617

double, conversion to a float NaN, in

nextFloat

 method

narrowing conversion, 57

of class

Random

, 649

NaN

 field

nextGaussian

 method

of class

Double

, 511

of class

Random

, 650

of class

Float

, 504

nextInt

 method

predefined constants representing, 23

of class

Random

, 648

preventing use of algebraic identities in

nextLong

 method

expression evaluation, 308

of class

Random

, 648

term definition and specification, 33

nextNextGaussian

 field

of class

Random

, 647

nextToken

 method

of class

StreamTokenizer

, 717

of class

StringTokenizer

, 652

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