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name comparison table

Subject		write in	have	be	is a synonym of	is a subtopic of	have example	composed of	start with	have convention	map to	has definition	use	be the same as	contain	see also
class name		the singular by convention	first letter of each word capitalized by convention	too general or too specific		Classes	PartTimeEmployee								spaces
fully qualified name	the fully qualified name for a member must be used if the member is in a different package and if the member's package has not been imported			a keyword	long name	Packages						A name that is unambiguous	to disambiguate two members of different packages with the same name			simple name
method name				the same as another method's name in the same class if they each have a different arrangement of parameter types		Methods
name of a constructor				a keyword		Constructors								the name of its class
package name			the domain name of the organization (with the components inverted) prepended to the package name by convention to assure that each package name is unique in the world	a keyword		Packages	com.naviseek.Mapplet is found in the naviseek directory which is inside the com directory (com aviseekMapplet.class in other words)	a series of words separated by dots			a directory name on the file system
primitive type name				a keyword		Variables and Data Types			a lower-case letter
program element name				less than about six characters except perhaps for loop counter variables, where i and j are commonly used		Programming
simple name	the simple name for a member can be used if the member is in the same package as the code you are writing or if the member's package has been imported			a keyword	short name	Packages										fully qualified name
variable name				case sensitive		Variables and Data Types	loadFile areaCode quitGame		a letter, an underscore character (_) or a dollar sign ($)	it consists of several words joined together with the first letter of the variable name in lowercase, each successive word beginning with a capital letter and all other letters lowercase					any combination of Unicode characters after the first character

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