PURE Java™ 2

Punctuation

You've already seen the basics of Java punctuation. Statements are ended with a semicolon (;). You can also use the comma to separate identifiers, like this:

int x, y, z; // This declares three ints, called x, y and
z respectively

The other main punctuation you regularly use are curly braces . You use curly braces, followed by no punctuation, to delimit class definitions and method definitions, like this:

class Book
    {
     method checkOut()
          {
          }  // End definition of method checkOut()
     }  // End of class definition for Book

Class definitions are not followed by a semicolon as a C struct or C++ class definition is. Also, as noted earlier, all the methods of a given class must be defined inside the curly braces that delimit the ...