Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C
by rzzzt on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:04PM
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An interesting tidbit on two unused keywords from the 1.0 specification [1]:
"The keywords const and goto are reserved by Java, even though they are not currently used in Java. This may allow a Java compiler to produce better error messages if these C++ keywords incorrectly appear in Java programs."
"The keywords const and goto are reserved by Java, even though they are not currently used in Java. This may allow a Java compiler to produce better error messages if these C++ keywords incorrectly appear in Java programs."
[1] http://titanium.cs.berkeley.edu/doc/java-langspec-1.0/3.doc....