What is a language construct? (was Re: Comment on state of Project Jigsaw)

[Neal Gafter]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com>wrote:

> Many presentations on Jigsaw have covered the need for modules to _look_
> familiar to Java programmers, leading to the open requirement:
>
> "Java-like syntax — The syntax of module declarations must be similar to
> that of declarations of a like nature in the Java programming language."
>

In what sense are module declarations "of a like nature" to anything
currently in the Java programming language?

-Neal