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5. Programmer Misconceptions

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Created by Carol J. Lallier, last modified by David Svoboda on Oct 20, 2014

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Programmer Misconceptions: Introduction

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CON50-J. Do not assume that declaring a reference volatile guarantees safe publication of the members of the referenced object
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CON51-J. Do not assume that the sleep(), yield(), or getState() methods provide synchronization semantics
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EXP50-J. Do not confuse abstract object equality with reference equality
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EXP54-J. Understand the differences between bitwise and logical operators
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FIO53-J. Use the serialization methods writeUnshared() and readUnshared() with care
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IDS55-J. Understand how escape characters are interpreted when strings are loaded
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MET51-J. Do not use overloaded methods to differentiate between runtime types
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NUM51-J. Do not assume that the remainder operator always returns a nonnegative result for integral operands
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OBJ50-J. Never confuse the immutability of a reference with that of the referenced object
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OBJ54-J. Do not attempt to help the garbage collector by setting local reference variables to null

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