6.7. Fully Qualified Names and Canonical Names
Every primitive type, named package, top level class, and top level interface has a fully qualified name:
• The fully qualified name of a primitive type is the keyword for that primitive type, namely byte, short, char, int, long, float, double, or boolean.
• The fully qualified name of a named package that is not a subpackage of a named package is its simple name.
• The fully qualified name of a named package that is a subpackage of another named package consists of the fully qualified name of the containing package, followed by “.”, followed by the simple (member) name of the subpackage.
• The fully qualified name of a top level class or top level interface that is declared in an unnamed package ...
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