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Re: literals and keywords

Date	2013-12-28 16:36 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: literals and keywords
References	(1 earlier) <l9n026$7to$1@dont-email.me> <keywords-20131228181648@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <l9n6tq$fsh$1@dont-email.me> <52bf2c49$0$304$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <l9nd1t$jhs$1@dont-email.me>
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On 12/28/2013 3:41 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 12/28/2013 11:53 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> And new is an operator.
>
> Is it?  That section I linked to refers to "new" as a keyword.
>
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-15.html#jls-15.9>
>
> Five paragraphs after that link.
>
> "...the type arguments to the constructor immediately follow the keyword
> _new_."
>
> And a couple of other places too.

Operators that are words and not special characters are also keywords.

But a quick check reveals that you are absolutely right - JLS do not
call new an operator even though it does call instanceof an operator.

That surprises me. In C++ and C# new is considered an operator.

And I do not seem to be the only one surprised. The Java tutorial
actually call it an operator.

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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