June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
21h 28m
English
Punctuation Terminology
Names
Identifiers
Expressions
Arrays
Operators
Associativity
How Accurate Are Calculations?
Widening and Narrowing Conversions
What Happens on Overflow?
Some Light Relief—Furby's Brain Transplant
This chapter covers more of the language basics. The information here follows a progression: first, the basics of names and identifiers, then how names are connected in expressions by operators, followed by the rules to evaluate expressions.
The last part of the chapter describes practical limits on accuracy, casting and conversions. If you are new to floating point arithmetic, some of this may come as a bit of a shock. The chapter finishes up by presenting ...
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