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[deepa Jay]

Hi all,
The follg. is a question from site http://www.javeedansar.domainvalet.com
12.Identify the keywords from the following

a] finally
b] true
c] return
d] sizeof
e] null

Answer:a,c
Why b,e are not included?
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Cheers,
Deepa

[pankaj agarwal]

b & e are also keywords!!! no doubt about that.
pankaj

[Rakesh Sharma]

As far as I know - true, false and null are not keywords, they are reserved words. For all practical purposes they are treated as keywords but actually they are reserved words.
Now the question comes - what is the difference?
Well can some one answer that.

[sunil choudhary]

Hi Deepa ,Pankaj ,Rakesh
read the following post about it in JLS
posting the relevent portion
Refer JLS- 3.9
"While true and false might appear to be keywords, they are technically Boolean literals (�3.10.3). Similarly, while null might appear to be a keyword, it is technically the null literal (�3.10.7). "
thus true false and null are not Keywords.they are literals...
Some one had a talk with Michael Ernest- (of RHE) earlier.
Michael then had said that such confusing questions will not be coming in real Exams...I am sorry I dont have a link to that post...( HOpe someone can provide that )
Perhaps, I saw that in Javacertstudy group.
HTH
Sunil Choudhary

[shashank hiwarkar1]

Hi Deepa,

true,null & false are not the keyword but these are reserved literals.
Shashank