[5244] in java-interest
Re: Is 'new' really necessary?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Locke)
Sat Feb 3 03:35:15 1996
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 23:05:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathan Locke <jonl@speakeasy.org>
To: David Geary <David.Geary@Central.Sun.COM>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, kkobashi@ix6.ix.netcom.com
In-Reply-To: <199602021636.JAA07713@trilby.Central.Sun.COM>
> Realize that (c) above creates a null REFERENCE to a Date, and does
> not create a local Date object, as it would in C++. Also note that
> the following:
>
> Date a = new Date(CurrentTime);
> Date c;
>
> c = a;
>
> is equivalent to the following C++ code:
>
> Date& a = *(new Date(CurrentTime));
> Date& c = 0;
>
> c = a;
not quite...
delete &a;
;-)
Java sure is cool!
J
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