Legacy Java Se 6 Runtime Mac Sierra Download

Java has such a bad rep on Macs that Apple has made it increasingly difficult to install it and other things that can potentially damage OS X. With the recent upgrade to Mac OS Sierra, Java 8. 'you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime'. There is a quick remedy for that in a download.
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Legacy Java Syntax (2)

Invalid syntax!

It's just a copy/paste mistake.

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The Token (*) in variables is applicable only in C because it uses pointers whereas JAVA never uses pointers.

And Token (*) is used only as operator in JAVA.

Reading the Java Code Conventions document from 1997, I saw this in an example on P16 about variable naming conventions:

The second declaration is of interest - to me it looks a lot like how you might declare a pointer in C. It gives a syntax error when compiling under Java 8.

Just out of curiosity: was this ever valid syntax? If so, what did it mean?

It appears that this is a generic coding style document for C-like languages with some Java-specific additions. See, for example, also the next page:

Do not use the assignment operator in a place where it can be easily confused with the equality operator. Example:

It does not make sense to tell a programmer to avoid something that is a syntax error anyway, so the only conclusion we can draw from this is that the document is not 100% Java-specific.

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Another possibility is that it was meant as a coding style for the entire Java system, including the C++ parts of the JRE and JDK.

Note that Sun abandoned the coding style document even long before Oracle came into the picture. They restrained themselves to specifying what the language is, not how to use it.