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literals, operators and transient variables

Posted by Jody Brown on December 09, 2000 at 12:42 PM

Devashish,

A literal describes a constant value. Types of literals include 100, 0, -15 - Integer literals
'g', ')', '&' - Character literals
"Hi there" "world!" - String literals.

Operators, such as +, -, ++, ==, are used to perform operations on literals, and objects.

Transient variables are declared on serialized (persistent) objects. If you dont want a particular variable of that object persisted - maybe a password the object stores - you can declare it as transient.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Jody

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