From: Oliver Wong <owong@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T23:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Grails


"Otis Bricker" <obricker@my-dejanews.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns97F89DF0588D4obrickermydejanewsco@216.196.97.136...
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote in
>
>> [W] Call me a purist, but encouraging expensive operations in Java is
>> not good; an example of course is List.get(int).  Granted, this is
>> always possible, but the C++/STL implementation makes more sense.

    I don't think it's "encouraging" expensive operations, so much as 
"neutrally making them available, and it's up to the programmer to decide 
which operations to call, and which ones not to".

[...]
>
>> [?] Are the non-byte datatypes fixed-size?
>
> Not sure what you mean. I believe that int,long, double and the like are
> all fixed size.

    They have a fixed range (e.g. from Long.MIN_VALUE to Long.MAX_VALUE for 
long). Their actual bit-width is implementation defined, and is inaccessible 
from within your Java program.

[...]
> Wonder what would happen if
> you had an applet that displayed a JEditPane that displayed the Applet.

    JEditPane ignores the <OBJECT>/<APPLET> tag, AFAIK.

    - Oliver