Core Java for the Impatient

Bug Report Page

Fourth Edition

Preface

In the Tip, change the URL for the book code from http://horstmann.com/javaimpatient/bugs.html to http://horstmann.com/javaimpatient

Section 1.4.4

Change “f is actually 1.23456792E8” to “f is actually 1.2345679E8F”.

Section 4.3.4

Change “and hashCode it is also rarely necessary. ” to “and it is also rarely necessary. ”

Section 4.3.4

Change

For the first option, simply do nothing. Your class will inherit the clone method, but no user of your class will be able to call it since it is protected.

to

For the first option, simply do nothing. Your class will inherit the clone method. Since it is protected, it is a compile-time error to call it from another package. And calls from the same package throw a CloneNotSupportedException.

Section 4.5.2, 4.5.5

Change exec.getTitle().getLength() to exec.getTitle().length()

Section 8.11

In the code for the second bullet, change summingInt to averagingInt

Credits

Thanks to Alessio Del Monte, Janusz Jabłonowski, Sen Turra, Rudy Vissers, and (your name might go here) for their bug reports and suggestions!

Prior Edition Errata

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Bug Report Form

Please use this form to report any bugs that you find. Please check the list of known bugs first before you report a bug. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to respond personally to every report, but I do read them all and will post updates to this page. Thank you!