Re: Looking for good table with all Java operators
Lew wrote:
Mike Schilling wrote:
Lew wrote:
However, the JLS does refer to 'instanceof' as an
operator.
But it's not in the list of operators, so the JLS contradicts
itself.
It really is the Java programmer's Bible!
More seriously, the official JLS definition of "operator" describes
only operators made up of special characters; that is, it
distinguishes "operator" from "keyword".
I was just going by
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#15.20.2>
entitled "Type Comparison Operator instanceof". That looks an awful
lot like an "official JLS definition" to me.
Sorry, I meant that 15.20.2 disagrees with the list in 3.12. Which is
fine; it's not as if giving a precise defintions of "operator" is one
of the JLS's most important goals.
This reminds me of a discussion that went on in comp.lang.c years ago.
Someone was asking whether "3 + 12i" was an imaginary number or not.
He'd seen some references that said "3 + 12i" was imaginary but not
"pure imaginary", and others that said "3 + 12i" was not imaginary
because it had a real part. He wanted to know the answer, because,
dammit, in mathematics there's always one right answer. No one could
convince him otherwise.
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