Punctuation Terminology
You might find it useful to refer back to this table in the chapters ahead.
These characters are called parentheses: ( ). They go around expressions and parameter lists.
These characters are called square brackets: [ ]. They go around array indexes.
These characters are called braces or curly braces: { }. They indicate the start and end of a new block of code, or an array literal.
These characters are called angle brackets: < >. They go around generic parameters.
The ellipsis token ... came into Java in JDK 1.5. It indicates the last argument to a method is a sequence of objects.
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