Name: rlT66838 Date: 02/26/2000


java version "1.1.7b"

In the documentation of the method java.lang.Character.isJavaIdentifierPart(),
the last group of characters is described with the term "an ignorable control
character". This term is missleading and wrong. What is really intended are the
characters returned by isIdentifierIgnorable(). The Spec should be changed
accordingly.

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Determines if the specified character may be part of a Java identifier
as other than the first character. A character may be part of a Java
identifier if and only
      if it is one of the following:
            a letter
            a currency symbol (such as "$")
            a connecting punctuation character (such as "_").
            a digit
            a numeric letter (such as a Roman numeral character)
            a combining mark
            a non-spacing mark
            an ignorable control character
[end citation]

The term "ignorable control character" has no meaning in the Unicode
standard. Instead, the term refers to all the Unicode characters for
which isIdentifierIgnorable() returns true. I suggest to replace the
line

            an ignorable control character
by

            one of the Unicode characters for which isIdentifierIgnorable() returns true

(Review ID: 101062)
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