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Foil 38 Java Language -- Lexical Issues I

From Jan 22 Delivered Lecture for Course CPS616 -- Java Lecture 1 -- Overview CPS616 spring 1997 -- Jan 22 1997. by Nancy McCracken * See also color IMAGE
Secs 80.6
Lexical structure inherits a lot from C/C++. There are however some notable differences which are listed below.
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
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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