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Queries related to K&B SCJP 6 book

 
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Hi

I have some queries related to the legal identifiers specified in the K&B SCJP 6 book (Page 5 under Legal Identifiers). In this page, they have given some examples of illegal identifiers. Can you please help me understand, why the below is considered as illegal identifier.




As per the explanation provided, it states that Identifiers must start with a letter, a currency character ($), or a connecting
character such as the underscore ( _ ). Identifiers cannot start with a number. In the above case, the identifier starts with a letter 'e'. But not sure why it is considered as illegal identifier. Please explain.

Thanks in advance
 
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You should find the explanation in the Java Language Specification.
 
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Hi Varshini,

In addition to the starting character restriction, the SCJP book also tells you that a legal identifier should only consist of a combination of either a letter, a $, a number or a connecting character. In your example, '#' is not a connecting character. Please go through the JLS link in the post above for complete details.
 
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