Re: One for Three?

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:40:10 -0500
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"NickName" <dadada@rock.com> wrote in message
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Mike Schilling wrote:

"NickName" <dadada@rock.com> wrote in message
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[...]

No, a *method* named main, not a *class* named main. E.g.

    public class Hello
    {
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                System.out.println("Hello, world");
        }
    }


Got it. Compiled and it runs. Many thanks. Now, a related question,
I attempted to use
the coordinates of 38?53'50"N 77?0'22"W for Union Station (DC) and
since the program does not prompt me for param input, I manually edited
the source code for the map.put method to
read as
map.put( "38?53'50\"N", "77?0'22\"W" );
// thought one backslash character is to escape special character like
quote

The code runs just fine. The debug console prints the following:
Dec 27, 2006: {38?53'50"N=77?0'22"W}

However, that seems meaningless unless I did not use it correctly. I
was expecting some sort of map albeit simple.


    You DO have a simple map. More specifically, you have a string
representation of a map which has a single point as it's domain
("38?53'50"N") and a single point as it's range ("77?0'22"W"). Perhaps the
confusion arises because you were expecting some sort of geographical map?
"Map" here is in the mathematical sense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_%28mathematics%29
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/fcns2.htm

    - Oliver

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