June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
[Note: This section may be read after studying Chapter 6, Methods: A Deeper Look, and the preceding portions of Chapter 25.]
The preceding section introduced basic auto-completion capabilities. When using JShell for experimentation and discovery, you’ll often want to learn more about a class before using it. In this section, we’ll show you how to:
view the parameters required by a method so that you can call it correctly
view the documentation for a method
view the documentation for a field of a class
view the documentation for a class, and
view the list of overloads for a given method.
To demonstrate these features, let’s explore class Math. Start a new JShell session or /reset ...