Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A Java Syntax Quirk

This is legal, compilable Java:

public class Oddity
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
http://blog.uncommons.org
System.out.println("Why is the URL allowed above?");
}
}

why?

thisIsALabel://And this is a comment.
System.out.println("So it's all fine.");

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