Appendix A. Keywords

The following key words are reserved in Java, so you must not use them as names in your programs"

abstractassertbooleanbreak
bytetcasecatchchar
classconstcontinuedefault
dodoubleelseenum
extendsfinalfinallyfloat
forgotoifimplements
importinstanceofintinterface
longnativenewpackage
privateprotectedpublicreturn
shortstaticstrictfpsuper
switchsynchronizedthisthrow
throwstransienttryvoid
volatilewhile  

You should also not attempt to use the boolean values true and false or null as names in your programs

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