
Marching Towards Java and Java Bytecodes • 15
(g) Special symbols: Special symbols or separators are having special meaning in the Java program.
They are [], ( ), { }, comma (,), semicolon (;) and dot (.).
(i) The symbol [] is used as subscript operator and with an array.
(ii) The symbol () is known as function operator and used with function and enclosing expressions.
(iii) The symbol {} is known as braces, where ‘{’ is known as an opening brace and ‘}’ is a closing
brace. They are used for defi ning the class, interface, function or block.
(iv) The comma is used as separators between identifi ers. The separator semicolon ...