67: Mainline

To change the value of a variable, you use the assignment operator, =. Three assignment statements appear in the following program:

public class Demonstrate {
 public static void main (String argv[]) {
  int result, script = 6, acting = 9, direction = 8;
  result = script;              
  result = result + acting;     
  result = result + direction;  
  System.out.print("The rating of the movie is "); 
  System.out.println(result); 
 } 
} 

Of course, this program is a bit awkward—the only reason to split the computation into three separate statements is to demonstrate that a variable can be assigned and then reassigned.