Keywords

The following words are treated as keywords in Java, and have special meaning:

Iodine Keywords

Iodine adds the following handful of keywords to support some Language Extensions to Oracle's standard Java implementation.

• __add — Events
• __aspect — Aspect Scope Prefix
• __assembly — Aspect Scope Prefix
• __autoreleasepool — Auto-Release Pools for Cocoa
• __block — Blocks
• __ensure — Class Contracts (Post-Conditions)
• __event — Events
• __extension — Extension Types
• __get — Properties
• __invariants — Class Contracts (Invariants)
• __mapped — Mapped Types
• __module — Aspect Scope Prefix
• __old — Class Contracts (Post-Conditions)
• __out — mark a method parameter as by-reference (out-only)
• __partial — Partial Types
• __published — "Published" visibility for class members, when using Delphi SDKs
• __ref — mark a method parameter as by-reference (in/out)
• __remove — Blocks
• __require — Class Contracts (Pre-Conditions)
• __result — accessing the result of a method
• __selector — Selectors for Cocoa
• __set — Properties
• __strong — Storage Modifiers for Cocoa
• __struct — Declaring Structs (value types)
• __unretained — Storage Modifiers for Cocoa
• __weak — Storage Modifiers for Cocoa
• var — used instead of a type name, for Type Inference

Standard Java Keywords

These standard keywords are defined by the Java language spec and are also all used by Iodine:

• abstract
• assert
• boolean
• break
• byte
• case
• catch
• char
• class
• const
• continue
• default
• do
• double
• else
• enum
• extends
• false
• final
• finally
• float
• for
• goto
• if
• implements
• import
• instanceof
• int
• interface
• long
• native
• new
• null
• package
• private
• protected
• public
• return
• short
• static
• strictfp
• super
• switch
• synchronized
• this
• throw
• throws
• transient
• true
• try
• void
• volatile
• while