Neal Gafter schrieb: > The set of characters acceptable to the VM in identifiers was expanded > in Java SE 5, and includes virtually every unicode character except a > few that have special meaning to the VM, such as '[', ';', '/', etc: > > 4.3.2 Unqualified Names > Names of methods, fields and local variables are stored as unqualified > names. > Unqualified names must not contain the characters '.', ';', '[' or '/'. > Method > names are further constrained so that, with the exception of the special > method > names(§3.9) <init>and <clinit>, they must not contain the characters > '<' or '>'.
'/', because of class names, '[', because of arrays, ';' because it is used to terminate a class name ([Ljava/lang/Object; = Object[])... but why '.'? bye blackdrag -- Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou The Groovy Project Tech Lead (http://groovy.codehaus.org) http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/ http://www.g2one.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
