Re: Float.MIN_VALUE

From:
Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:42:36 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<5d599bf4-fde6-40b6-9505-4d37784a28ff@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 11, 9:27 pm, 10god...@gmail.com wrote:

On 12 velj, 04:45, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

10godina <10god...@gmail.com> writes:

System.out.println(Float.MIN_VALUE);


  What happens when you use the following statement?

java.lang.System.out.println( java.lang.Float.MIN_VALUE );


package operators;

public class Exponential {

        public static void main(String[] args) {

                java.lang.System.out.println( java.lang.Fl=

oat.MIN_VALUE ); // works

fine
                System.out.println(Float.MIN_VALUE); //err=

or

                System.out.println(Float.MAX_VALUE); //err=

or

                System.out.println(Double.MIN_VALUE); //wo=

rks fine

                System.out.println(Double.MAX_VALUE); //wo=

rks fine

        }

}


If you have a class named Float in the operators package that's
visible at compile time, it will be used for the two "error" lines
instead of java.lang.Float. However, fully-qualified class names
always refer to the same class, which is why the first line works (you
only needed to qualify java.lang.Float, not System).

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