Originally posted by Keith Lynn:
Actually true/false/null are not reserved words.
Hmm...there's a Sun tutorial that says, "true, false, and null are not keywords but they are reserved words"
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/_keywords.html. Presumably, then, the reserved words are the keywords plus the boolean and null literals.
See also:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=741032&messageID=4249727 Practically speaking, I don't suppose the distinction matters a great deal; we can't use any of them for identifiers in
Java, and that's the important point.