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Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable

From Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable
Date 2020-04-24 20:12 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 4/24/20 6:54 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>> For instance I can do:
>>
>> class IdentifierTest {
>>    class _\u0001 {}
>>    class _\u0001\u0001 {}
>> }
>>
>> and javac doesn't complain

> 
> My javac complains.
> 
> :-)
Well, I guess that is what I get for not doing what I said.

I used the Eclipse Java compiler to compile my example above.

When I use javac I get:

javac -version
javac 1.8.0_252

javac Z.java
Z.java:2: warning: '_' used as an identifier
   class _\u0001{}
         ^
   (use of '_' as an identifier might not be supported in releases after 
Java SE 8)
Z.java:3: error: illegal unicode escape
   class _\u001\u0001{}
               ^
Z.java:3: warning: '_' used as an identifier
   class _\u001\u0001{}
         ^
   (use of '_' as an identifier might not be supported in releases after 
Java SE 8)
1 error
2 warnings

When I compile and run in Eclipse using OpenJDK 8 and 11 :

class Z {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
     class _\u0001{String z = "z";}
     class _\u0001\u0001{String z = "zz";}
     _\u0001 Z = new _\u0001();
     _\u0001\u0001 ZZ = new _\u0001\u0001();
     System.out.println(Z.z + ZZ.z);
   }
}
prints "zzz"

That's worrisome!



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Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 18:46 -0400
  Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 18:54 -0400
    Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-24 23:07 +0000
    Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:12 -0400
      Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 20:29 -0400
        Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:37 -0400
          Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 22:24 -0400
            Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 23:36 -0400
              Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 12:57 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 13:01 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 13:39 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 13:51 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 14:36 -0400
            Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 23:41 -0400
    Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:25 -0400
      Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 20:32 -0400
        Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:42 -0400
          Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 09:53 -0400
            Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 12:55 -0400
              Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 13:43 -0400

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