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Re: float exprs return double and args are promoted to double

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Graham)
Fri Nov 10 00:28:16 1995

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:42:09 -0800
From: flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Graham)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, garya@village.org


> Did floating point type promotion and argument passing change from
> Alpha to Beta?

In Beta, floating point constants are double by default unless you
append an 'f':

	double d = 1.0;
	float f = 2.0f;

This is explained in the changes document:

	http://java.sun.com/JDK-beta/changes-prebeta.html#language

				...jim
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