Understanding the difference between null and '\u000' in Java

Question

I read in a book (Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel, 4th edition, page 47) that null is equal to \'\\u000\'. And then I was wondering what e

Answer 1

null is a literal and you can see the specification which says in practice you can simply pretend that it's "merely a special literal that can be of any reference type".

as @assylias said what you read was surely not out of java :)