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- backslash \
- escape sequence, 27
- Unicode escape use, 13
- backspace
- escape sequence, 27
- banana-fana, 111
- Bartleby
- Project (Columbia University), ix
- scrivener, 398
- bases
- See also numbers
- permitted in integer literals, 19
- bear, 236
- before method
- of class
Date
, 629
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 119
- Bernard de Morlay, 111
- Beta, 3, 6
- biblical quotations
- I Corinthians 14:40, 305
- John 3:30, 348
- Matthew 6:29, 193
- bibliographic references
- The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, 650
- Polling Efficiently on Stock Hardware, 206
- Release-to-Release Binary Compatibility in SOM, 237
- binary
- compatibility
- See also code generation; compile-time errors; exceptions
- changes that do not break, 237
- (chapter), 237
- compatible with term definition, 240
- contrasted with source compatibility, 241
- properties and non-properties, 240
- file format, required properties, 239
- numeric promotion, specification, 74
- binary
- representation, verification of classes and interfaces, 220
BitSet class, 618
BitSet
class- blocks
- See also control flow; statements
- (chapter), 263
- definite assignment, 393
- LALR(1) grammar productions, 446
- specification and execution of, 265
- Bobrow, Daniel G., 6
- body
- See also declarations
- class
- declarations in, 138
- term definition, 138
- constructor, 178
- binary compatibility considerations, 257
- interface, declarations, 185
- method, 164
- binary compatibility considerations, 257
- boolean
- See also numbers
Boolean
class, 469booleanValue
method, of class Boolean
, 470- literals, term definition and specification, 23
- operators, 36
- type and values, term definition and specification, 36
- Bovik, Harry, 126
- Bowie, David, 509
- Box, G. E. P., 650
- brackets ([])
- array type declaration, 194, 266, 37
- syntactical ambiguities, handling of, 311
- break statement
- See also control flow
- definite assignment, 397
- as reason for abrupt completion, 264
- specification, 283
- brown paper packages, 126
- buffers
buf
field
- of class
BufferedInputStream
, 699 - of class
BufferedOutputStream
, 732 - of class
ByteArrayInputStream
, 689 - of class
ByteArrayOutputStream
, 727
buffer
field, of class StringBufferInputStream
, 692BufferedInputStream
class, 699BufferedOutputStream
class, 732
- Bunyan, John, 823
- Burke, Edmund, 263
- Burton, Robert
- exception, 213
- lard, ix
- but not phrase
- grammar notation use, 10
- Butler, Samuel, 530
- butter, 530
- Byron, Lord, 823
- byte type
- See also integral types; numbers; primitive types
ByteArrayInputStream
class, 689ByteArrayOutputStream
class, 727- value range, 31
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