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matteo.sistisette
stupid question: CONSTANTS
Sep 24th, 2005, 6:58pm  
Hi,

I am a newbie with Processing, and I studied Java quite a long time ago. I thought there was a keyword in java, something like "constant" (indeed I was convinced it was "constant") to define (guesswhat?) constants.

For example:

constant int MYCONSTANT;

I know it's not necessary, I can just use a variable, but I am just curious. I can't avoid feeling somewhat guilty when I declare a variable in order to define a constant...
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cello
Re: stupid question: CONSTANTS
Reply #1 - Sep 24th, 2005, 7:31pm  
You would do "static final int MYCONSTANT = ...;"  Possibly "static final private int MYCONSTANT = ...;" if you want further compiler optimizations.

Static makes it in the class space (rather than object space), final makes it so that it cannot be changed, private allows it to not be used by other classes.

Marcello
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matteo.sistisette
Yeah, "final"!!!
Reply #2 - Sep 24th, 2005, 7:52pm  
Yeah!! "FINAL", of course!! I had forgot it!!

Thank you Marcello! (non sarai italiano, per caso?)
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