I wonder if we want to be cagey about committing to interning, which is another way to say we must translate too a constant string info. In the future, alternate condy- based representations may seem desirable and we don’t want to be painted into a translation by overspecification.
Sent from my iPad > On May 20, 2019, at 7:08 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buck...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Please see http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~abuckley/jep355/text-blocks-jls.html > for JLS changes that align with the JEP. > > Text blocks compile to the same class file construct as string literals, > namely CONSTANT_String_info entries in the constant pool. Helpfully, the JVMS > is already agnostic about the origin of a CONSTANT_String_info, making no > reference to "string literals". Therefore, there are no JVMS changes for text > blocks, save for a tiny clarification w.r.t. annotation elements. > > Alex
