Null是一个特殊值，它不是任何东西的实例。很明显，它不能是任何东西的实例。

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3.10.7. 空文字 空类型有一个值，即空引用，由 null literal null，由ASCII字符组成。 空字面值总是null类型。

只有赋值为null类型的引用才会被分配。您不需要为引用分配任何值(对象)。 这样的分配取决于JVM将占用多少引用以及将在哪个内存区域分配引用。

不，它不是任何东西的实例，instanceof总是false。

Null不是任何类的实例。

然而，你可以将null赋值给任何类型的变量(对象或数组):

 // this is false   
 boolean nope = (null instanceof String);

 // but you can still use it as a String
 String x = null;
 "abc".startsWith(null);

An interesting way to see null in java in my opinion is to see it as something that DOES NOT denote an absence of information but simply as a literal value that can be assigned to a reference of any type. If you think about it if it denoted absence of information then for a1==a2 to be true doesn't make sense (in case they were both assigned a value of null) as they could really could be pointing to ANY object (we simply don't know what objects they should be pointing to)... By the way null == null returns true in java. If java e.g. would be like SQL:1999 then null==null would return unknown (a boolean value in SQL:1999 can take three values : true,false and unknown but in practise unknown is implemented as null in real systems)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

Null是一个特殊值，它不是任何类的实例。下面的程序说明了这一点:

public class X {
   void f(Object o)
   { 
      System.out.println(o instanceof String);   // Output is "false"
   }
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      new X().f(null);
   }
}