On 6/6/2017 10:14 AM, Stephan Herrmann wrote:
Normally, a qualified name denotes two things: a parent element and a
child. The package name "java.lang" has a qualifier "java" which
denotes a top-level package and "lang" can be used relative to that
package to denote a member package etc.
For a module - say "java.base" - the qualifier "java" denotes
nothing. And hence, the simple name "base" cannot be resolved in any
context.
So the question is: should ModuleElement.getSimpleName() answer the
totally useless last segment of the name, or should it answer the
same as getQualifiedName()?
When Joe asked for feedback on this API two months ago [1], I made
essentially the same point [2], and a bug was filed [3].
Alex
[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2017-April/010896.html
[2]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2017-April/010905.html
[3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8163989
