B

backslash \

escape sequence, 27

Unicode escape use, 13

backspace

escape sequence, 27

banana-fana, 111

Bartleby

Project (Columbia University), ix

scrivener, 398

bases

See also numbers

permitted in integer literals, 19

bear, 236

before method

of class Date, 629

Bell, Alexander Graham, 119

Bernard de Morlay, 111

Beta, 3, 6

biblical quotations

I Corinthians 14:40, 305

John 3:30, 348

Matthew 6:29, 193

bibliographic references

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, 650

Polling Efficiently on Stock Hardware, 206

Release-to-Release Binary Compatibility in SOM, 237

binary

compatibility

See also code generation; compile-time errors; exceptions

changes that do not break, 237

(chapter), 237

compatible with term definition, 240

contrasted with source compatibility, 241

properties and non-properties, 240

file format, required properties, 239

numeric promotion, specification, 74

binary

representation, verification of classes and interfaces, 220

BitSet class, 618

BitSet class

blocks

See also control flow; statements

(chapter), 263

definite assignment, 393

LALR(1) grammar productions, 446

specification and execution of, 265

Bobrow, Daniel G., 6

body

See also declarations

class

declarations in, 138

term definition, 138

constructor, 178

binary compatibility considerations, 257

interface, declarations, 185

method, 164

binary compatibility considerations, 257

boolean

See also numbers

Boolean class, 469

booleanValue method, of class Boolean, 470

literals, term definition and specification, 23

operators, 36

type and values, term definition and specification, 36

Bovik, Harry, 126

Bowie, David, 509

Box, G. E. P., 650

brackets ([])

array type declaration, 194, 266, 37

syntactical ambiguities, handling of, 311

break statement

See also control flow

definite assignment, 397

as reason for abrupt completion, 264

specification, 283

brown paper packages, 126

buffers

buf field

of class BufferedInputStream, 699

of class BufferedOutputStream, 732

of class ByteArrayInputStream, 689

of class ByteArrayOutputStream, 727

buffer field, of class StringBufferInputStream, 692

BufferedInputStream class, 699

BufferedOutputStream class, 732

Bunyan, John, 823

Burke, Edmund, 263

Burton, Robert

exception, 213

lard, ix

but not phrase

grammar notation use, 10

Butler, Samuel, 530

butter, 530

Byron, Lord, 823

byte type

See also integral types; numbers; primitive types

ByteArrayInputStream class, 689

ByteArrayOutputStream class, 727

value range, 31

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