F

FALSE field

of class Boolean, 469

Feeley, Mark, 206

Fibonacci numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610

fields

See also classes; constants; instances; interfaces; methods; variables

fields

access control

default, example, 102

private, example, 105

protected, example, 104

public, example, 103

access expressions, evaluation, 319

of an array, 197

of a class

binary compatibility considerations, 249

declarations, 143

examples of, 151

final, 146

binary compatibility considerations, 250

volatile declaration not permitted for, 148

multiply inherited, example of, 153

non-static

default values, 46

explicit constructors not permitted to use, 179

hiding example, 152

initialization of, 149

initializers for, 150

invocation of initializers during instance creation, 229

specification, 44

reinheritance of, example, 154

static

and final, binary compatibility considerations, 251

binary compatibility considerations, 253, 259

hiding of, example, 151

initialization of, 149, 175

initialization of, during the preparation phase of linking, 221

specification, 44

term definition and declaration, 145

transient, 147

binary compatibility considerations, 253

volatile, 147

binary compatibility considerations, 253

final declaration not permitted for, 148

declarations

as declared entity, 78

binary compatibility considerations, 260

grammar specification difficulties, 437

LALR(1) grammar productions, 443

fields

hidden

accessing using cast, 323

accessing with

super keyword, 322

this keyword, 269

of an interface

ambiguous inherited example, 188

binary compatibility considerations, 251

declarations, 186, 187

examples, 188

initialization, 187

during the preparation phase of linking, 221

multiply inherited example, 188

public by default, 187

length, as member of an array, 88

as members

of a class, 86

of an interface, 87

names, naming conventions, 109

NoSuchFieldError class, 611

public, by default in interface declaration, 187

references, active use, 224

scope of, 81

Fifth Dimension, 317

files

See also I/O; input; output; streams

binary, format, 238

File class, 752, 753

FileInputStream class, 684

FilenameFilter interface, 759

FileOutputStream class, 722

RandomAccessFile class, 743

standard

System.err, 580

System.in, 579

System.out, 580

standard exceptions

EOFException, 210, 762

FileNotFoundException, 210, 763

InterruptedIOException, 210, 764

IOException, 210, 261

systems, storing packages in, 115

fillInStackTrace method

of class ThreadGroup, 613

filters

FilterInputStream class, 696

FilterOutputStream class, 730

Finagle's Law, 201

final modifier

See also declarations; modifiers

classes

binary compatibility considerations, 242

declaration of, 133

fields

binary compatibility considerations, 250

declaration and use, 146, 186

final by default in, interface, declaration, 187

volatile declaration not permitted for, 148

methods

binary compatibility considerations, 255

declaration and use, 160

not permitted in interface method declarations, 189

reasons why constructors cannot be, 178

finalization

See also exceptions; linking

of classes, 235

finalizable, as object attribute, 232

finalize method

as member of Object class, 41

of class FileInputStream, 686

of class FileOutputStream, 724

of class Object, 463

finalized, as object attribute, 232

finalizer

method calls, unordered nature of, 234

finalizer-reachable, as object attribute, 232

finally clause, exception handling use, 204

implementing, 232

of instances, 231

implementation procedures, 232

unloading implications, 235

findSystemClass method

of class ClassLoader, 560

first cat, 126

firstElement method

of class Vector, 657

fish

relationship to pianos and stringed instruments, 137

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 635

float type, 30

See also floating point

floating-point

See also arithmetic; numbers; types

algebraic identities, limits on use of, 308

Double class, 308, 510

Float class, 503

floating-point

float type, floating-point literal specification, 22, 30

floatToIntBits method, of class Float, 508

floatValue method

of class Double, 512

of class Float, 505

of class Integer, 490

of class Long, 497

of class Number, 487

literals

largest and smallest, 22

term definition and specification, 22

Long class, 495

operations, 34

required behavior, 34, 35

types and values, term definition and specification, 33

floor method

of class Math, 524

flow analysis

See also security

conservative, required for definite assignment of local variables, 383

flush method

of class BufferedOutputStream, 733

of class DataOutputStream, 735

of class FilterOutputStream, 731

of class OutputStream, 721

of class PrintStream, 739

Foote, Samuel, 290

for statement

definite assignment, 396

ForInit part

initialization by, 281

scope of local variable declared in, 82

header, local variable declaration in, 266

specification, 280

forDigit method

of class Character, 486

form feed

escape sequence, 27

formal parameter

See parameters

Forman, Ira, 237

format

See also binary, compatibility

binary, properties of, 238

forName method

of class Class, 468

forward reference

See also scope

compile-time error in

class variable initialization, 149

instance variable initialization, 150

to types allowed before declaration, 82

Franklin, Benjamin, 215

freeMemory method

of class Runtime, 565

Frost, Robert

Generations of Men, 299

Line-gang, 415

Mending Wall, 183

Mountain, 295

Fuller, Thomas, 823

Contents | Prev | Next | Index

Java Language Specification (HTML generated by Suzette Pelouch on February 24, 1998)
Copyright © 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
Please send any comments or corrections to doug.kramer@sun.com