Java in a Nutshell, 2nd edition
by David Flanagan


Unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.


This page was updated December 5, 2001.


UNCONFIRMED errors and suggestions from readers:


{8} In the "Getting Started with Java" chapter under the section entitled 
"High-Performance", you state "Java 1.0 was said to be about 20 times slower 
than C."  This is an inaccurate math statement.

In math the word "times" indicates multiplication.  The only way that anything
can be "20 times slower" than another thing is that if the one thing's speed 
can be stated as a negative number.  (ie. 20 * -1 is slower than the speed of 
-1)  A correct statement would be, "Java 1.0 was said to be 1/20th as fast as 
C."


{13} Example 1-3: 
The text "Please scribble away in the applet below." in the HTML-file is not 
shown in Figure 1-1.


(23) Primitive Data Types, 1st paragraph:
 
	"... to standard default vlaues. Table..."

should read

	"... to standard default values. Table..."


[26]  2nd paragraph of "Terminology: Pass by Reference" section;
The swap function should work as intended.
The method parameters a and b are a copy of the references to the objects passed to the method, and so the objects outside of the method should be affected by the method, and the swap function should work as intended.


{47} In para. 3:

	"used by synchronized threads"

Should be

	"used by unsynchronized threads"


[135] Example 6.5:
The image and sound aren't available on line. As is, the program won't run.


{137} Example 6-5: 
"Applet.this" appears five times in the code. This should be "Soundmap.this".
 
The way it is in the book, it fails to compile using javac, from the Sun JDK 
1.2.1.


{228} In table 13-2 the escape sequece for \xxx (octal numbers) stated the
range is 000 to 0377. The maximum number of digits is three, 0377 is four. If 
used acourding to the book:

	"...
	 //The sun compiler will throw an error!
	 char c = '\0377';
	 ..."

	 //This String is two char long not one!
	 String s = "\0377";
	 //This String would be represented by ascii 31 and 55
	 ..."


(241) Change "This file a lightly edited" to "This file is a lightly edited".


(246) "implicitly" is misspelled.


(292) Change "can be draw into" to "can be drawn into". 


[328] entire example:
I'm working with mixing latin and chyrillic texts in a system for producing 
bilingual dictionaries and found your "PrintableDocument" class very handy and
would very much be able to use it. But I found two (for me) major problems. 
For some reason, the pages are overlapping so that page (n+1) starts with some
4 to 8 "lines" from the end of page (n). Also, characters like accents, that 
occupy no width of their own, destroy the measuring, so that the space between
words disappears. This is also true for the vertical bar character that I use 
as a stem-marker in the headwords. On the screen it looks just fine, though.

I have done some modifications to get some text in the header and to narrow 
the column by scaling the printWidth by 0.6, but the errors are the same even 
if I take away my changes to your code.


(361) Remove superfluous "that".


(481) "classes" is misspelled.