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Mixins first appeared in Symbolics's object-oriented Flavors system (developed by Howard Cannon), which was an approach to object-orientation used in Lisp Machine Lisp.The name was inspired by Steve's Ice Cream Parlor in Somerville, Massachusetts: [1] The owner of the ice cream shop offered a basic flavor of ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, etc.) and blended in a combination of extra items (nuts ...
Primitive wrapper classes are not the same thing as primitive types. Whereas variables, for example, can be declared in Java as data types double, short, int, etc., the primitive wrapper classes create instantiated objects and methods that inherit but hide the primitive data types, not like variables that are assigned the data type values. [2]
Primitive classes are subject to all the constraints of value classes, but are not reference types. This means they give up the ability to support null . Instead, their default values are the zero value for each of the component types ( 0 for numerical types, false for booleans, null for reference types, and the zero value for nested primitive ...
In computer science, boxing (a.k.a. wrapping) is the transformation of placing a primitive type within an object so that the value can be used as a reference. Unboxing is the reverse transformation of extracting the primitive value from its wrapper object. Autoboxing is the term for automatically applying boxing and/or unboxing transformations ...
VTDNav (VTD Navigator) is the class that (1) encapsulates XML, VTD, and hierarchical info, (2) contains various navigation methods, (3) performs various comparisons between VTD records and strings, and (4) converts VTD records to primitive data types.
Collection implementations in pre-JDK 1.2 versions of the Java platform included few data structure classes, but did not contain a collections framework. [4] The standard methods for grouping Java objects were via the array, the Vector, and the Hashtable classes, which unfortunately were not easy to extend, and did not implement a standard member interface.
Some languages such as Julia include a true 32-bit Unicode character type as primitive. [24] Other languages such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and many dialects of BASIC do not have a primitive character type but instead add strings as a primitive data type, typically using the UTF-8 encoding. Strings with a length of one are normally used to ...
The Java NIO APIs are provided in the java.nio package and its subpackages. The documentation by Oracle identifies these features. Buffers for data of primitive types; Character set encoders and decoders; A pattern-matching facility based on Perl-style regular expressions (in package java.util.regex) Channels, a new primitive I/O abstraction