Java Reference
In-Depth Information
See Also
As mentioned,
Printing in Java
contains “better” recipes for printing under Java.
For most topics in this chapter, Elliotte Rusty Harold's
Java I/O
should be considered the
antepenultimate documentation. The penultimate reference is the javadoc documentation,
while the ultimate reference is, if you really need it, the source code for the Java API, to
which I have not needed to make a single reference in writing this chapter.
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The central character in Yann Martel's novel
Life of Pi
would have been born in 1956, according to
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If this were code in a maintained project, I might factor out some of the common code among these
two calculators, as well as the one in
Handling Very Large Numbers
, and divide the code better using
interfaces. However, this would detract from the simplicity of self-contained examples.
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There is no support for adding files to an existing archive, so make sure you put all the files in at
once or be prepared to re-create the archive from scratch.