On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Manfred Hauswirth wrote:
> Even more confusing is the follwoing statement (Bug Id 4102959, State Closed,
> will not be fixed) :
>
> "According to the bugs database, this is only the third time that anyone's
> noticed that we've never implemented class finalization. --
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> xxxxx@xxxxx 1/9/1998
>
> Please see 4108421 "Remove class finalization from JLS". Because of that
> proposal, this bug will not be fixed. xxxxx@xxxxx 1998-04-07"
This refers to "class" finalization, not the usual "object" finalization.
There would be a static finalize() method that would be called when
the class itself was garbage collected. This is what is referred to
as "never implemented".
Nigel Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mountain View, CA, USA. http://www.nrg.org/
