Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition

Pitfalls

Here are some of the idiosyncrasies of the language that will catch programmers by surprise if they’re accustomed to using a particular feature in C and assume that it will be supported in SymbEL.

• Only one variable can be declared per line. The variable names may not be a comma-separated list.

• There is no type float. All floating-point variables are type double.

• Curly braces must surround all sequences of statements in control structures, including sequences of length one.

• The comparators work with scalars, floats, and strings. Therefore, the logical comparison ("hello" == "world") is valid and in this case returns false.

• If the result of an expression yields a floating value as an operand to the modulus operator, that value is converted ...