Java   View all facts   Glossary   Help

syntactic unit > symbol > name > simple name > simple variable name

simple variable name comparison table

Subject	have example	begin with	be	be the same as	start with	see also	contain	is a subtopic of	is a synonym of	is a kind of		have convention
simple name			a keyword			fully qualified name		Packages	short name	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
variable name	loadFile areaCode quitGame		case sensitive		a letter, an underscore character (_) or a dollar sign ($)		any combination of Unicode characters after the first character	Variables and Data Types		name		it consists of several words joined together with the first letter of the variable name in lowercase, each successive word beginning with a capital letter and all other letters lowercase
simple variable name	loadFile areaCode quitGame	a lowercase letter	case sensitive	the name of another variable in its scope	a letter, an underscore character (_) or a dollar sign ($)	fully qualified name	any combination of Unicode characters after the first character	Variables and Data Types		variable 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	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

Next simple name: simple class name    Up: simple name, variable name