翻译文献Working with Objects Casting and Converting Objects and Primitive Types.docVIP

大连交通大学2016届本科生毕业设计（论文）外文翻译 外文原文 Working with Objects Casting and Converting Objects and Primitive Types Sometimes in your Java programs you may have a value stored somewhere that is the wrong type. Maybe it’s an instance of the wrong class, or perhaps it’s a float and you want it to be an int, or it’s an integer and you want it to be a string. To convert the value of one type to another, you use a mechanism called casting. New Term: Casting is a mechanism of converting the value of an object or primitive type into another type. The result of a cast is a new object or value; casting does not affect the original object or value. Although the concept of casting is a simple one, the rules for what types in Java can be converted to what other types are complicated by the fact that Java has both primitive types (int, float, boolean), and object types (String, Point, Window, and so on). Because of these three types, there are three forms of casts and conversions to talk about in this section: □ Casting between primitive types: int to float to boolean □ Casting between object types: an instance of a class to an instance of another class □ Converting primitive types to objects and then extracting primitive values back out of those objects Casting Primitive Types Casting between primitive types enables you to “convert” the value of one type to another primitive type—for example, to assign a number of one type to a variable of another type. Casting between primitive types most commonly occurs with the numeric types; boolean values cannot be cast to any other primitive type. You can, however, cast 1 or 0 to boolean values. Often, if the type you are casting to is “larger” than the type of the value you’re converting, you may not have to use an explicit cast. You can often automatically treat a byte or a character as an int, for example, or an int as a long, an int as a float, or anything as a double automatically. In this case, because the larger type provides more precision t