Poor Style: Identifier Contains Dollar Symbol ($)

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Abstract

Using a dollar sign ($) as part of an identifier is not recommended.

Description

Section 3.8 of the Java Language Specification reserves the dollar sign ($) for identifiers that are used only in mechanically generated source code.

Examples

int un$afe;