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How to we check if primitives like long,int becomes null?

 
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How to we check if primitives like long,int becomes null?
 
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primitives can't hold null 'values',
objects can hold null 'references'.
 
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Birla Murugesan wrote:How to we check if primitives like long,int becomes null?



If by null you mean 0, it's pretty obvious, isn't it..?
 
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M K Rayapudi wrote:
objects can hold null 'references'.



Reference variables can hold null values.
 
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Birla Murugesan wrote:How to we check if primitives like long,int becomes null?



Primitives are not objects and when they are reset they get their intialization value. If you use an unintialized primitive variable in local scope, the class does not compiles.
 
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Birla Murugesan wrote:How to we check if primitives like long,int becomes null?



A primitive variable can never be null in the sense that it's void, that is holds nothing. It will always hold some value.

If you by null mean 0 then you just check if the variable holds a 0 using the == operator.
 
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Unlike reference types where null can be regarded as "no object" and therefore an invalid content, a 0 might be a valid content for a number. So the concept of null and primitive values don't mix.
 
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uj nossnahoj wrote:

Birla Murugesan wrote:How to we check if primitives like long,int becomes null?



A primitive variable can never be null in the sense that it's void, that is holds nothing. It will always hold some value.



Well, I may be wrong here so I better mention it before someone else does.

Double and float actually can hold a non-number called NaN (Not a Number). Maybe NaN should be considered "null" for doubles/floats.
 
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No, I don't think NaN can be regarded as an analogue to null. It is a very strange value, but is still a value. As a very rough approximation, NaN is rather like an error value.
 
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There's also Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY and Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY, but those are even more implausible candidates for the null value.
 
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