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Foil 3 Java Language -- Lexical Issues I

From Java Tutorial 98- 2: Java Language and Object Oriented Techniques NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken


1 Lexical structure inherits a lot from C/C++. There are however some notable differences which are listed below.
2 Java characters are based on 16--bit wide Unicode Worldwide Character Encoding rather than the usual 8--bit wide ASCII. This allows full support of all alphabets and hence all languages
3 Three types of comments are supported:
  • // ignore all till the end of this line
  • /* ignore all between starts */
  • /** an insert into an automatically generated software documentation */
    • 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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