From: Adam Flinton 




Ellen K. wrote:
> Yes, int, which is an integer in English.
>

I had no idea Java or C++ were english dialects. I assumed they were some
sort of programming languages.

Adam


> 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"
 wrote in message
>>>>>>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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