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Errata

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Errata updates:

Date of updatePrintingPages
2023-04-201st1198
2023-05-091st1677
2023-07-161st29
2023-07-211st238
2023-08-071st516, 525, 526
2023-08-081st518
2023-08-251st1501
2023-09-041st943
2023-09-161st1071

Acknowledgements:

Many thanks to the following readers for their diligent observations: Eric Borm, Michael Gualeni, Michael Gualeni, Satish Singh, Ivan Titov.

Errata list:

The errors listed below are ordered according to their page numbers. Each error is labeled with all the printings where the error occurred. E.g. "1st printing" indicates that the error occurred in the first printing, but has been corrected before the second printing, i.e. you won't find this error in the second printing.

Page 29

1st printing, under Chapter Topics in Chapter 2, the word "boolean" is misspelt in the following bullet:

CHANGE:

Overview of primitive data types defined in Java: integral, floating-point, and boolgean

TO:

Overview of primitive data types defined in Java: integral, floating-point, and boolean

Page 238

1st printing, in the section Defining Interfaces:

CHANGE:

The access modifier can be public or private. Lack of an access modifier implies package accessibility.

TO:

The access modifier can be public. Lack of an access modifier implies package accessibility.

Page 516

1st printing, in the last sentence, the name of the non-static field should be nsf2 and not nsf1:

CHANGE:

        The static field sf in the class TLCWith2LCS is accessed in the StaticLocal class at (14), 
        but the non-static field nsf1 cannot be accessed, as shown at (13).

TO:

        The static field sf in the class TLCWith2LCS is accessed in the StaticLocal class at (14), 
        but the non-static field nsf2 cannot be accessed, as shown at (13).
        

Page 518

1st printing, in the output from Example 9.12:

CHANGE:

        Painter$1$Circle
        Painter$1$Graph

TO:

        Painter$1Circle
        Painter$1Graph

Page 525

1st printing, the second sentence in the subsection Accessing Local Declarations in the Enclosing Block:

CHANGE:

        An anonymous class can only access (effectively) final variables in its enclosing local context, 
        shown both for static fields at (10), (11), and (12), and for instance fields at (13), (14), and (15).

TO:

        Local variables in the enclosing non-static method cannot be accessed in any static fields of an anonymous class, 
        whether they are (effectively) final or not, as shown at (10), (11), and (12). 
        An anonymous class can only access (effectively) final local variables in its enclosing local context from its instance fields, 
        as shown at (13), (14), and (15). 

Page 526

1st printing, in Example 9.15 (see the new explanation on page 525):

CHANGE:

        static int sff1 = fp;  // (10) Final param from enclosing method
        static int sff2 = flv; // (11) Effect. final variable from enclosing method

TO:

  //    static int sff1 = fp;  // (10) Final param from enclosing method
  //    static int sff2 = flv; // (11) Effect. final variable from enclosing method

Page 943

1st printing, in the subsection Querying an Optional:

CHANGE:

        <X extends Throwable> T orElseThrow(Supplier<? extends X> exceptionSupplier) throws X extends Throwable

TO:

        <X extends Throwable> T orElseThrow(Supplier<? extends X> exceptionSupplier) throws X

Page 1071

1st printing, in Example 17.7, logical error in the loop condition of the for(;;) loop:

CHANGE:

        time.plus(duration).isBefore(endTimeExclusive);

TO:

        time.isBefore(endTimeExclusive);

1st printing, in Example 17.7, the program output is missing a showtime:

CHANGE:

        Showtime (PT2H15M): 10:10
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 12:25
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 14:40
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 16:55
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 19:10
        Closing time: 23:00

TO:

        Showtime (PT2H15M): 10:10
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 12:25
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 14:40
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 16:55
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 19:10
        Showtime (PT2H15M): 21:25
        Closing time: 23:00

Page 1198

1st printing, in Figure 19.15:

CHANGE:

«module game»

TO:

«module name»

Page 1501

1st printing, in Figure 23.7:

CHANGE:

        CopyOnWriteArrayList<K,V>
        CopyOnWriteArraySet<K,V>

TO:

        CopyOnWriteArrayList<E>
        CopyOnWriteArraySet<E>

Page 1677

1st printing, answer to Review Question 15.20:

CHANGE:

        (b)

TO:

        (a)

Khalid A. Mughal   •   Vasily A. Strelnikov