The Java Language Specification, Third Edition

internal symbolic reference table, role in
maintaining, 312
type systems, verification importance to, 342
SecurityManager class, 313
semantics
See also grammars; lexical; syntax
errors in, exceptions as mechanism for signaling
at run-time, 297
expressions, (chapter), 409
names
context role, 127
determining, 126
expressions, 134
methods, 137
package, 131
types, 132
verifying during linking process, 314
semicolon (;)
as method body, 223
separators
list of, 31
as token, 10
sequences
escape, for character and string literals, 30
shadowed, 444
shadowing
absence of by statement labels, 370
of declarations, 119
by package declarations, 160
of exception parameters, 397
of labels, 370
of local classes, 362
by local variables, 367
of local variables, 365
by member types, 237
of members by local variables, 366
of methods, 119
by a nested class, 190
package, 160
of packages, 119
parameters, 212
by single-static import, 120, 164
by single-type import, 119, 161
by static-import-on-demand, 120, 165
by type-import-on-demand, 120, 163
of types, 119
of variables, 119
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 495
short type
See also integral types; numbers
value range, 35
side effects
See also expressions
from expression evaluation, reasons for, 409
signature(s)
of constructors, 241
of methods, 212
, 269, 352, 442
methods with same, inheriting, 228
override-equivalent, 124, 212, 267, 273,
449
term definition, 214
simple names
See also identifiers; names
expression, meaning of, 134
method, meaning of, 137
package, meaning of, 131
term definition, 115
type, meaning of, 132
single quote(’)
escape sequence, 30
sleep
thread, 583
Smalltalk-80, 7
sorting
Unicode, reference for details on, 20
source code
compatibility, compared with binary compatibility,
339
transformations that preserve binary compatibility,
335
square brackets ([])
in array
type declaration, 288
variable declaration, 289
stack trace
of an exception, 401
startup
virtual machine, 309
state
not shared by primitive values, 35
object
impact of changes, 46
transient fields not part of persistent,
199
statements
633