Name: dbT83986 Date: 02/25/99


The second sentence of the method description for
BigDecial.longValue is unclear. Tt says:

     Converts this BigDecimal to a long. Standard
     narrowing primitive conversion as defined in
     The Java Language Specification: any fractional
     part of this BigDecimal will be discarded, and
     if the resulting "BigInteger" is too big to fit
     in a long, only the low-order 64 bits are
     returned.

It would be clearer if the part before the colon
were a complete sentence, or at least were in the
form of the wording for floatValue, etc.:

    ...
    Similar to the double-to-float narrowing primitive
    conversion defined in The Java Language
    Specification: if this BigDecimal....



DSB/DFI
(Review ID: 47489)
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