Talk:Boxing (computer programming)

int i = 9;
int j = 13;
int k = i + j;

This is done all in a primitive type. Shouldn't the first line, for example, be "Integer i = 9"? -- Taku 01:24, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

This article doesn't say much about what an object type is. It's trying to explain autoboxing, but not doing a very good job. I'd rather read the Sun article. Can anyone do a better job? --Uncle Ed 21:42, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't it all about 'object types' living garbage collected on the heap, and primitive types, structs living on the stack? (at least in c# and java). Boxing is creating a new object on heap out of a stack object so it can be manipulated with a reference - it is unsafe to get a reference to an object living on stack, because it could die too early and program could crash. exe 03:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]