Is null a keyword

The null value is not a keyword.
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sachin

  • Jul 16th, 2005
 

null is a key word 
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K Rajesh Achary

  • Jul 22nd, 2005
 

According to the Java Language Specification, null, true, and false are 
technically literal values (sometimes referred to as manifest constants) and not keywords.

hema

  • Aug 3rd, 2005
 

According to Java null is a key word literal. 
So are true and false.They cannot be used as variable names even though they are not keywords.

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Nirav

  • Aug 17th, 2005
 

null, true and false are literal values and not keyword. even though they are not keywords, they cannot be used as variable because they are actual values. if u were to use null as variable, it would be like writing that 5 = 0, where 5 is a variable and 0 is a value

Sandeep Katiyar

  • Aug 30th, 2005
 

null is not a keyword in java.

Jai

  • Sep 12th, 2005
 

null is a keyowrd

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pearlisan

  • Sep 18th, 2005
 

The null is not a keyword. But it is used by the JVM while an variable reference the blue print(I mean Classes), till an object created using the "classname varname=new classnameconstructor".

Dave W

  • Sep 19th, 2005
 

language lawyers :)does it matter if it's a keyword or a reserved literal value ? Maybe mattersto a compiler implementors so they can decide what to do with it, but to joe programmer,it's a value you can't mess with. You certainly won't be able to int null=5 ; or public null() {......}.Those who split hairs are the people you don't want to work for ! (javac developers exluded:)

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Vijay

  • Sep 21st, 2005
 

'null' is a value, which can be assigned to a reference object. It specifies the reference object has no object instance associated to it. In Java 'null' is a reserved word that can not be used as identifer, and null means nothing or no value. 'null' is the default value all the uninitialized static & non-static reference objects.

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arijit

  • Sep 28th, 2005
 

null is a keyword in java but it contains values such as true and false

so can we treat it as a data type?

please advice

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Sushant

  • Oct 10th, 2005
 

NULL is a final variable.  If you want to test this try doing like this

null = null;

Now compile !!!

You will get the answer.

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Sujit

  • Mar 3rd, 2006
 

(null,true,false) are not keywords but are reserved words so we cannot use them as names.

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krishna

  • Mar 5th, 2006
 

According to java language specification null is not a keyword

ramu

  • Mar 10th, 2006
 

null is an literal ,not an keyword

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dvs

  • Mar 14th, 2006
 

NO null is not a key word

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santi

  • Aug 1st, 2006
 

 in java "null" is not a keyword,its a reservedword.

null means nothing or null value.

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anu

  • Sep 26th, 2007
 

"null" is not a keyword according to 'JAVA'. It is one of option like "true/false".

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TriVinDreamer

  • Oct 27th, 2008
 

...true, false, and null might seem like keywords, but they are actually literals; you cannot use them as identifiers in your programs.[1]
[1]:http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/_keywords.html

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Himanshu chauhan

  • May 26th, 2018
 

False

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