Could you technically call the string[] anything in the main method?

Question

The header for the main method is

public static void main (String[] args)

Could you technically replace \"args\" with anything

Answer 1

The main method could be written as:

• public static void main (String[] args)
• public static void main (String args[])
• public static void main (String... args)

The parameter name args could be replaced with any valid Java identifier like blah, programArgs, and so on. It's an array to accept any number of command line arguments. For example:

• java programName has no command line arguments
• java programName arg1 arg2 has 2 command line arguments