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Roedy Green
Has anyone run across an official definition of argument and parameter
for Java?
for Java?
D
Daniel Dyer
Not specifically for Java, but the only interpretation I've seen that
doesn't use the terms interchangeably is that an argument is a specific
instance of a parameter.
E.g, in the following example, the parameter for doSomething is anInteger
and the argument is 4.
public static void doSomething(int anInteger)
{
System.out.println("The argument was " + anInteger);
}
public static void main(String[] s)
{
doSomething(4);
}
Dan.
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Eric Sosman
Roedy Green wrote On 10/25/07 11:38,:
JLS 8.4.1 defines "formal parameter" and refers to
"actual argument expressions" that supply the initial
values of the "parameter variables." This is consistent
with the practice in some other languages: The parameter
is the local variable in the method/function/subroutine/
procedure/lambda expression/whatever, and the argument
is the caller-supplied value/reference/thingy.
JLS 8.4.1 defines "formal parameter" and refers to
"actual argument expressions" that supply the initial
values of the "parameter variables." This is consistent
with the practice in some other languages: The parameter
is the local variable in the method/function/subroutine/
procedure/lambda expression/whatever, and the argument
is the caller-supplied value/reference/thingy.
R
Roedy Green
thanks. I have written new entries for
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/parameters.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/arguments.html
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Wayne
Roedy said:
The terms are interchangeable. But I'm sure we could
have a long parameter on this subject.
-Wayne
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Andrew Thompson
Wayne wrote:
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Mark Space
Andrew said:
Yeah that was a good one. I was going to say that Java methods have
parameters and arguments are what we have here. ;-)
L
Lew
Mark said:
Must ... not ... quote ... Monty Python ... ... must ... resist . . . .
A
Andreas Leitgeb
no!Lew said:
A
Andrew Thompson
Lew said:
I hate to admit this, but I am not entirely sure of the
Monty Python quote you are referring to, and I'm burning
with curiosity.
The only sketch I can think of that comes close, is the
'I want an argument' sketch.
<poorly paraphrased MP>
"Oh, I'm sorry, ..you wanted an argument? This is 'abuse'."
</poorly paraphrased MP>
L
Lew
Andrew said:
You get the gold star. That is the one that fits the parameters.
R
Roedy Green
Who can quote the line from Star Trek?
A
Andrew Thompson
Lew said:
Thanks! That is much more validation than any ..
<dws>Google groups 'rating'</dws>.
But I am surprised that ..an *American* * would have
such arcane knowledge of Monty Python! It is good
to post to these international newsgroups, if only to
dispell such 'colloquial myths'!
* My apologies for my amazement, but I thought Monty
Python's appeal was limited to those English speaking
countries that were 'not America'. I had suspected the
MP humor to be 'beyond them' ( thank you for pointing
out the - ..naivety of my ways
.--
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Andrew Thompson
Roedy said:
Who cares? (I always hated Star Trek, such dweebie
"let's all get in touch with our inner feelings" crap that I
hoped the Klingons/Borg/'WhoCares?' would wipe the lot
of them out - they did not deserve to infest the universe
with 'Federation Dweebies').
L
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen
Roedy Green said:
Beyond "Beam me up, Scotty", "Make it so", "Open hailing frequencies"
and "Fire photon torpedos"?
/L '*sing* We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill! *sing*'
D
Daniel Pitts
Monty Python is quite popular here actually. Although it does kind ofAndrew said:Thanks! That is much more validation than any ..
<dws>Google groups 'rating'</dws>.
But I am surprised that ..an *American* * would have
such arcane knowledge of Monty Python! It is good
to post to these international newsgroups, if only to
dispell such 'colloquial myths'!
* My apologies for my amazement, but I thought Monty
Python's appeal was limited to those English speaking
countries that were 'not America'. I had suspected the
MP humor to be 'beyond them' ( thank you for pointing
out the - ..naivety of my ways
have a niche following. Some might even say that social misfits enjoy
MP more than the rest. Personally, that either makes them wrong or me a
social misfit (or both, possibly).
D
Daniel Pitts
You must be thinking of Star Trek: TNG. The original star trek was allAndrew said:
about beating up aliens and wooing the girl.
J
John W. Kennedy
Andrew said:Thanks! That is much more validation than any ..
<dws>Google groups 'rating'</dws>.
But I am surprised that ..an *American* * would have
such arcane knowledge of Monty Python! It is good
to post to these international newsgroups, if only to
dispell such 'colloquial myths'!
* My apologies for my amazement, but I thought Monty
Python's appeal was limited to those English speaking
countries that were 'not America'. I had suspected the
MP humor to be 'beyond them' ( thank you for pointing
out the - ..naivety of my ways
It's not hungry (It's merely pinin' for the Fjords). Besides You
have no bird seed.
-- Crowther and Woods: "Adventure", alias "Colossal Cave"
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Hello, Sailor!
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To get into boat, say 'Board'
To leave boat, say 'Disembark'
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workmanship for a period of 76 milliseconds from date of purchase or
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Oh ye who go about saying unto each: "Hello sailor":
dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?
Yea, verily, thou shalt be ground between two stones.
Shall the angry gods cast thy body into the whirlpool?
Surely, thy eye shall be put out with a sharp stick!
Even unto the ends of the earth shalt thou wander and
unto the land of the dead shalt thou be sent at last.
Surely thou shalt repent of thy cunning.
-- MIT "Zork"
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
T
Travis James
I had never thought about how a Brit might think Americans take MontyAndrew said:* My apologies for my amazement, but I thought Monty
Python's appeal was limited to those English speaking
countries that were 'not America'. I had suspected the
MP humor to be 'beyond them' ( thank you for pointing
out the - ..naivety of my ways
Python. It's not at all uncommon at a gathering/cocktail party for a
group of men (never women that I've seen) take some topic and twist it
into some MP skit or movie scene.
MP fans I know seem to cut their teeth on Holy Grail or Meaning of Life
before fully appreciating Life of Brian or episodes of MP's Flying
Circus. (Never saw Jabberwocky.)
-- TJ (Californian)
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Lew
Travis said:
I remember how impressed I was that /Matching Tie and Handkerchief/ was a
3-sided LP pressed onto a single disc of vinyl.