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Under the hood, the program memory is an ArrayList of Integers which expands "infinitely" (limited by your system's memory) to the right (still [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness Turing complete]). So, if the pointer moves past zero to the left, the program will exit and a "Pointer out of range" error message will be displayed. Due to the BufferedReader input class, return characters ([http://www.asciitable.com ASCII] 10 and 13) are ignored on input (the , command), but are not ignored on output (the . command). MoreLoops detailedare informationhandled canin the <tt>jumpForward</tt> and <tt>jumpBack</tt> methods. The bracket that the code pointer is on is counted as 1 (the counter is initialized to 1). The method then moves the code pointer forward or back and counts other brackets along the way. If it finds a bracket of the same type, 1 is added to the counter; if it finds a bracket of the other type, 1 is subtracted from the counter. The search continues until the counter reaches 0. For jumping forward, the code pointer must be foundallowed into skip the commentsending scatteredbracket. aboutFor jumping back, the pointer can remain at the starting bracket. So, <tt>jumpBack</tt> offsets the next code pointer increment to make sure the check for 0 happens.