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But that's not really surprising, it's each character as a unicode escape (see section 3.2 of the Java spec). It's possible in any language that allows escaped

• 0xmohit 10y ago
  Not surprising, yes. But what is silly is that the Unicode sequences are also interpreted in comments. /* Comment region begins. \u002a\u002f String s = "Comment was closed in the previous statement";
  • flukus 10y ago
    That's a recipe for pure evil.
• ygra 10y ago
  Most languages only tend to allow them in string literals, or identifiers. Java is fairly unique in that it has a pre-processor that replaces those throughout the source code before actually compiling. Which means that a lot of benign-looking source code can have fairly surprising behaviour, such as exhibited in the polyglot where //\u000Afoo actually cancels the line comment.
• 0xfeba 10y ago
  Oh man, if I had known that at my last job I could have had great fun with some of coworkers via my commits.