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Posts: 4 Can someone explain the difference between a Keyword
and a reserved word??  Joined: Apr 21, 2000 Posts: 26 A keyword
is a specially assigned word which can be used in programming
like if,while,etc. whereas a reserved word is a keyword which is
kept reserved so that it cannot be used during normal
programming like goto,strictfp,widefp,etc. Dont worry the exam
only asks u to find which are java keywords i.e. java keywords
and java reserved words. hope this helps, Mohan Ramanna Ranch
Hand  Joined: Jun 26, 2000 Posts: 36  Java unitll know has 48
words which are reserved for the usage in the language syntax
which are referred to has keywords and hence u cant use them as
user defined variables. Java has so