On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:24:55 GMT, Joe Darcy <da...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> java.lang.Class has a number of methods to return some kind of textual token > associated with the class, including a type name, canonical name, simple > name, and separately the results of toString(). > > Bug 8254979 notes that getSimpleName mentions returning the name in source > code, but operationally returns a non-null result for synthetic classes, ones > without benefit of source code representation. Since it is useful to return a > non-null result in such cases, I've updated the spec to mention this case. > The names of synthetic classes are not covered by the JLS; using a "$" in > such names is customary, but not strictly required. The synthetic classes > used to implement lambdas and method references as cited in the bug report > include "$"'s. > > Looking over the other "getFooName" methods, I don't think they need to be > updated to handle this case. Marked as reviewed by mchung (Reviewer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3038
