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Old 07-02-2007, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by brian View Post
Nice description of the datatypes.

One thing though is that these are just primitive data types and not objects. The nice thing about java is that it is object oriented, and so you create objects (which are like a more complex data type) and so you have virtually unlimited number of datatypes in reality....because you create them.
Not all of them are actually primitive data types. In Java Strings are objects, more specifically, an Abstract Data Type [ADT] -- essentially an array of characters.

But yes, in OOP, there are unlimited ADT's.
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