From: Ellen K. 

Yes, int, which is an integer in English.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:52:01 +0000, Adam Flinton
 wrote in message :

>Ellen K. wrote:
>> ISTR (but don't everyone jump on me if this is wrong, I am no Java
>> expert) that in Java the "native" datatypes like an
integer go on the
>> stack, while the object ones go on the heap.   But even without that
>> obviously the native datatypes are gonna be faster to work with.
>>
>
>int.
>
>integer is an object.
>
>Adam
>
>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:44:32 -0600, "Geo"
 wrote in
>> message :
>>
>>
>>>"Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message
>>>news:418fa68a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>>"Geo"  wrote in message
news:418f51bf{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>
>>>>>"Peter Sawatzki" 
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>>>>>news:MPG.1bf827b322d0373989741{at}news.barkto.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>The main difference is that functions that operate
on a class are
>>>>>>implicitly called with the self/this pointer as an invisible
>>>
>>>"argument".
>>>
>>>>>Why is that distinction important?
>>>>
>>>>You can toss an object (an instance of a class) to other functions /
>>>
>>>objects
>>>
>>>>as a parameter, which you can't do with a main() and a bunch of other
>>>>separate functions. That's one that comes to mind immediately.
>>>
>>>Ok but that doesn't explain what the difference between a data type like
>>>"int" and a class like "Date" is.
>>>
>>>Geo.
>>>
>>
>>

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