java类名不能以数字开头,为什么标识符不能以数字开头？

Why in java (I dont know any other programming languages) can an identifier not start with a number and why are the following declarations also not allowed?

int :b;

int -d;

int e#;

int .f;

int 7g;

解决方案

Generally you put that kind of limitation in for two reasons:

It's a pain to parse electronically.

It's a pain for humans to parse.

Consider the following code snippet:

int d, -d;

d = 3;

-d = 2;

d = -d;

If -d is a legal identifier, then which value does d have at the end? -3 or 2? It's ambiguous.

Also consider:

int 2e10f, f;

2e10f = 20;

f = 2e10f;

What value does f have at the end? This is also ambiguous.

Also, it's a pain to read either way. If someone declares 2ex10, is that a typo for two million or a variable name?

Making sure that identifiers start with letters means that the only language items they can conflict with are reserved keywords.