Re: Why doesn't this very simple code snippet work?

From:

Hendrik Maryns <hendrik_maryns@despammed.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:23:16 +0100

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<ekmbek$cue$1@newsserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>

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lbrtchx@hotmail.com schreef:

// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - code
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

// __
class ALS00{
protected int iLL;
ArrayList<String> ALS = null;
// __
LSet00(int iLL){
  if(iLL > -1){ this.iLL = iLL; ALS = new ArrayList<String>(); }
  else{}
}
// __
public boolean setNewS(String aS){
  boolean IsNw = ALS.contains(aS);
  if(!IsNw){
   int iSz = ALS.size(); ALS.add(aS); IsNw = ((ALS.size() - iSz) == 1);
  }
// __
  return(IsNw);
}
}
// __
public class ALS00Test{
public static void main(String[] aArgs){ ALS00 ALS = new ALS00(); }
}
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.
It should based on:
.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/ArrayList.html

First of: your style is terrible. Please stick to the name and case
conventions.

// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - errors
sh-3.1# javac *.java
ALS00Test.java:7: <identifier> expected
ArrayList<String> ALS = null;
          ^
ALS00Test.java:9: invalid method declaration; return type required
LSet00(int iLL){
^
ALS00Test.java:12: '(' or '[' expected
   ALS = new ArrayList<String>();
                      ^
SlashDotCleaner04Test.java:7: <identifier> expected
HashSet<String> HSS;
        ^
SlashDotCleaner04Test.java:13: '(' or '[' expected
   HSS = new HashSet<String>();
                    ^
5 errors
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You need java 5.0 to compile this code. It seems you are trying to
compile it with an old java.

H.
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