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Re: literals and keywords

Date 2013-12-28 14:53 -0500
From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: literals and keywords
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On 12/28/2013 1:56 PM, markspace wrote:
> Why exactly "this" and "new" and "super" aren't literals, I don't know.
>   Possibly because their value isn't fixed, but depends on context, and
> therefore isn't actually a single literal value.  They represent a range
> of values, and the language implementers didn't want to call them
> operators or variables or introduce a new concept like "special
> function," so they just called them a keyword because they had the
> concept already and it worked well enough.

this and super are not constant so they could never be called a literal.

And new is an operator. More like instanceof.

Arne

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Re: literals and keywords markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-28 08:59 -0800
  Re: literals and keywords "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-28 17:28 +0000
  Re: literals and keywords markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-28 10:56 -0800
    Re: literals and keywords Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-28 14:53 -0500
      Re: literals and keywords markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-28 12:41 -0800
        Re: literals and keywords Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-28 16:36 -0500

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