Puzzle (Hello Whirled)
/**
* Generated by the IBM IDL-to-Java compiler, version 1.0
* from F:\TestRoot\apps\a1\units\include\PolicyHome.idl
* Wednesday, June 17, 1998 6:44:40 o'clock AM GMT+00:00
*/
package demo;
public class App {
public static void main( final String[] args ) {
System.out.print( "Hell" );
System.out.println( "o world" );
}
}
What do you think the above will print, if you get it to compile!!
This example was taken from PUZZLE 15: HELLO WHIRLED in Java™ Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases.
“The problem is in the third line of the comment, which contains the characters \units
. These characters begin with a backslash (\
) followed by the letter u
, which denotes the start of a Unicode escape. Unfortunately, these characters are not followed by four hexadecimal digits, so the Unicode escape is ill-formed, and the compiler is required to reject the program. Unicode escapes must be well formed, even if they appear in comments.”