INDEX

Partridge, Eric

P

, 127

artridge, Eric

preventing

pathSeparator

 field

instantiation, 180

of class

File

, 753

with private constructors, 132

pathSeparatorChar

 field

prime numbers

, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23,

of class

File

, 753

29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67,

pearls

, 417

71, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109,

peek

 method

113, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151,

of class

Stack

, 661

157, 163, 167, 173, 179, 181, 191,

Peirce, Charles

, 383

193, 197, 199, 211, 223, 227, 229,

Peretti, Hugo E.

, 28

233, 239, 241, 251, 257, 263, 269,

performance

271, 277, 281, 283, 293, 307, 311,

See

 optimization

313, 317, 331, 337, 347, 349, 353,

PI

 field

359, 367, 373, 379, 383, 389, 397,

of class

Math

, 518

401, 409, 419, 421, 431, 433, 439,

PipedInputStream

 class

, 687

443, 449, 457, 461, 463, 467, 479,

PipedOutputStream

 class

, 725

487, 491, 499, 503, 509, 521, 523,

platform dependent

541, 547, 557, 563, 569, 571, 577,

native

 methods are, 161

587, 593, 599, 601, 607, 613, 617,

pointers

619, 631, 641, 643, 647, 653, 659,

See

 references

661, 673, 677, 683, 691, 701, 709,

NullPointerException

 class, 611

719, 727, 733, 739, 743, 751, 757,

polling

761, 769, 773, 787, 797, 809, 811,

for asynchronous exceptions, 206

821, 823

pop

 method

primitive

of class

Stack

, 661

See also

 numbers

pos

 field

conversion

of class

BufferedInputStream

, 700

narrowing, 55

of class

ByteArrayInputStream

, 689

in assignment conversion context, 61

of class

StringBufferInputStream

, 692

in casting conversion context, 67

POSITIVE_INFINITY

 field

not allowed in method invocation

of class

Double

, 511

conversion context, reasons for, 66

of class

Float

, 504

widening, 54

pow

 method

in assignment conversion context, 61

of class

Math

, 522

in binary numeric promotion context,

precedence

74

See also

 expressions

in casting conversion context, 67

of operators, in expression evaluation, 308

in method invocation conversion

precise

context, 66

term definition, 205

in unary numeric promotion context,

precision

73

See also

 numbers

types

possible loss of

as array element types, 194

in narrowing primitive conversion, 55

changing value of variables, 31

in widening primitive conversion, 54

fully qualified name for, 105

preparation

literal as source code representation of the

of classes, 221

value of, 19

in

Test

 class example, at virtual machine

narrowing conversions, specification, 55

startup, 216

term definition and specification, 30

of interfaces, 221

variables of, specification, 44

standard exceptions,

widening conversions, specification, 54

AbstractMethodError

, 212

prescient store

actions, with threads, 408

801