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This covers Objective 1.3

Legal Identifiers

  • Can be composed of characters, numbers, currency-symbols and connecting chars such as underscore.
  • Definition of characters are interpreted according to the charset.
  • NO special chars such as #, :, ;, @, -, etc...
  • Must start with letter, currency char, underscore but CANNOT start with a digit !
  • Java identifiers are case-sensitive.

Illegal identifiers:

  • int 23age;
  • String em@iladd;
  • List all-accounts;

These are legal!:

  • int __;
  • String $;

Literals

  • Default type of an integer literal is int.
  • Long can be specified by adding l or L
  • Octal prefix with 0
  • Hex prefix with 0x or 0X
  • Floating point literals default type is double.
  • Double can also be explicitly by adding the suffix d or D
  • Float is denoted by suffix f or F

Comments

  • Comment start sequences like //, /*. /** are ignored within comment blocks.
  • So trying to nest multiple-line comments will result in an error
/* This is the foo algorithm
   /* which takes foo's and sort's bars */
*/