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Poor Style: Identifier Contains Dollar Symbol ($)
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#REDIRECT Failure to follow guideline/specification
Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 04/7/2009
Description
Using a dollar sign ($) as part of an identifier is not recommended.
Section 3.8 of the Java Language Specification reserves the dollar sign ($) for identifiers that are used only in mechanically generated source code.
Risk Factors
TBD
Examples
int un$afe;
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