Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: the true literal Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:54:16 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6b9e92482af47766954d85fb77d372f5"; logging-data="23728"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+GT6qLQ9e5yZemJWp8QA1REEW5KVeCIyc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:fjxQk64XhIQTViXxLnMQe+mleng= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26567 On 11/21/2013 11:23 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote: > On 11/21/2013 09:24 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >> The JLS says: >> >> »While true and false might appear to be keywords, >> they are technically Boolean literals (§3.10.3).« >> >> What is a keyword? What is a specification?