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Constant Expression

EXPRESSIONS

Qualified names of the form

TypeName

.

Identifier

 that refer to

final

 vari 

ables whose initializers are constant expressions

Compile time constant expressions are used in

case

 labels in

switch

 statements

( 14.9) and have a special significance for assignment conversion ( 5.2).

Examples of constant expressions:

true

(short)(1*2*3*4*5*6)

Integer.MAX_VALUE / 2

2.0 * Math.PI

"The integer " + Long.MAX_VALUE + " is mighty big."

. . . when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared

into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions . . .

 F. Scott Fitzgerald,

This Side of Paradise

 (1920)

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