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Keywords

The following are keywords in the Java language and should not be used as identifiers.

Keywords are case-sensitive. Thus, if you type If instead of if or For instead of for, the compiler complains about your error.

Two of these keywords — const and goto — are reserved by Java but don’t do anything.

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