On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Scott Blum <[email protected]> wrote:
> To give some context, this signature is used for the purpose of deciding if > a class's API has changed... *as far as other Java source files are > concerned for the purposes of running javac*. It has no effect on > TypeOracle or the data presented there, it's not being used to cache old > TypeOracle models. > > Using sort order means a user can sort a file without changing its API and > not have to recompile the dependent files. > > You can design the hash so it isn't sensitive to the order of methods/fields without having to sort. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
