The font conventions used in this book are quite simple.
Italic is used for:
Unix pathnames, filenames, and program names
Internet addresses, such as domain names and URLs
New terms where they are defined
Program names, compilers, interpreters, utilities, and commands
Threads
Constant width
is used
for:
Anything that might appear in a Java program, including method names, variable names, and class names
Tags that might appear in an HTML or XML document
Keywords, objects, and environment variables
Constant width bold
is used
for:
Text that is typed by the user on the command line
Constant width italic
is used for:
Replaceable items in code
In the main body of text, we always use a pair of empty parentheses after a method name to distinguish methods from variables and other creatures.
In the Java source listings, we follow the coding conventions most
frequently used in the Java community. Class names begin with capital
letters; variable and method names begin with lowercase. All the letters
in the names of constants are capitalized. We don’t use underscores to
separate words in a long name; following common practice, we capitalize
individual words (after the first) and run the words together. For
example: thisIsAVariable
, thisIsAMethod()
, ThisIsAClass
, and THISISACONSTANT
. Also, note that we
differentiate between static and nonstatic methods when we refer to them.
Unlike some books, we never write Foo.bar()
to mean the bar()
method of Foo
unless bar()
is a static method (paralleling the Java
syntax in that case).
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