A Puzzle from “A Brief History of the (Java) World and a Peek Forward” Presented by Neal Gafter

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Here is a Java puzzle from Neal Gafter’s presentation.

Which one is correct, a, b, c or d?

The answer is d.

There are 3 defects in this program:

1. Apparently, there is no “break” in the switch statement.

2. nextInt(2) will only return 0 or 1.

3. ‘P’, ‘G’, ‘M’ are Chars, not Strings. So it uses the wrong constructor.

There are more puzzles in the book below, if you want to do more.

1 thought on “A Puzzle from “A Brief History of the (Java) World and a Peek Forward” Presented by Neal Gafter”

  1. I think this code output : “ain”, because StringBuffer(‘M’) is equivalent to StringBuffer(77). so in fact, StringBuffer(‘M’) call the constructor StringBuffer(int capacity)

    I have tested this code (Compiled using jdk6),it’s ran ok and output “ain”

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