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Lexical structure inherits a lot from C/C++. There are however some notable differences which are listed below.
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Java characters are based on 16--bit wide Unicode Worldwide Character Encoding rather than the usual 8--bit wide ASCII.
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This allows full support of all alphabets and hence all languages
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Three types of comments are supported:
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// ignore all till the end of this line
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/* ignore all between starts */
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/** an insert into an automatically generated software documentation */
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for /** */ one inserts HTML documentation with some simple macros such as @see (to designate see also) BEFORE the method or class being documented
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