2009-06-19

More puzzling behaviour

Still in the spirit of Java Puzzlers; can you provide declarations for i and j to make this statement fail at runtime?

i = j;


I spent quite some time debugging this, once...
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    Integer j = null;
    int i;
    i = j;


    ??

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  2. espenhwJune 19, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    Quite right. Any other boxed primitive/primitive pair would work just as well.

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