Amazing stuff ??? Plz answer...

[Vijay Narayanan]

public class ADirtyOne
{
//char a = '\u000A';
}
An attempt to compile the above class
1. will complete successfully.
2. will compile sucessfully but with a warning message.
3. will not compile - complains on an invalid expression.
I tried compiling and it doesnt compile. The answer is 3.
PLz explain....
These are from http://www.angelfire.com/or/abhilash/Main.html Are such kind of trick questions asked???

[chin josei]

hi..
try this
http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/001322.html

HTH

[Manoj Gupta]

This may amaze many a people at first sight.
Check this: http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/bycodes.html#U0000A
The unicode character u000a is the line feed (newline) character. That ends the comment in your code and the '; fall to next line resulting in compile error.

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Cheers,
Manoj
(http://www7.brinkster.com/manoj9/)

[William Brogden]

The reason of course is that Unicode characters are translated as a String is read and before the compiler sees it. Thats why there are escaped characters such as \n for the control codes.
Bill

[Maulin Vasavada]

that was a good one. i liked it.
regards
maulin

[Peter den Haan]

If you want to see more Unicode madness, check my response in this thread.
- Peter