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Stranger Things About Java Characters
The mystery of the comment error and other stories.
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Introduction
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\u0069\u006E\u0074 \u0069 \u003D \u0038\u003B
You can try to copy and paste it inside the main method of any class and compile it. If you then also add the following statement after you compile that class
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And did you know that this comment instead produces a syntax error at compile time?
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Yet, comments shouldn t produce syntax errors. In fact, programmers often comment out pieces of code just to make the compiler ignore them. so what s going on?