Activity of Oct. 19, 2010

Post date: Oct 20, 2010 3:9:39 AM

We continued the presentation of how local variables are placed on the stack and objects are placed on the heap, how comparison works, what aliases are, why string comparison with == sometimes gives false positives because of string merging, when pass by value and pass by reference are used, and other intriguing details of language design. There's still more to come. Java does a lot of work for you behind the scenes!