Confusion in Java 1

As seeing <<Java Puzzlers>> by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter, I try what they say and write them down.

 

You  should not use "\u" as unicode type in comments, otherwise using html encoding type.

It will be compiled as unicode although it may not be your perpose.

As you can see from the following image, it alerts error as wrong syntax.

 

Sometimes you may just write in "\u" as to get the unicode character as you want. But writing in html encoding should be the best solution.

"\n" is a platform dependent character to presents LR. In Unix, it will print two row seperators but in Windows one.

So use formating key "%n" is a good choice.

 

Reference:

<<Java Puzzlers Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases>>, Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter.