The current draft of the reflection API for the sealed keyword adds a method
getPermittedSubclasses() [1] to java.lang.Class.
I'm not fully sure that returning an array of ClassDesc is the right choice
here, mainly for two reasons,
1/ it's weird to return an array of ClassDesc when all others s
On 5/8/20 12:02 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
On May 8, 2020, at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Gibbons
wrote:
On 5/7/20 11:48 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
This isn't a one-time change. I'm sure there's more work to do in JLS and JVMS,
as the need arises, and various other parts of the ecosystem (reflection APIs,
java
> De: "John Rose"
> À: "Remi Forax"
> Cc: "daniel smith" , "amber-spec-experts"
>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 8 Mai 2020 02:15:44
> Objet: Re: Class & interface terminology
> On May 7, 2020, at 3:07 PM, [ mailto:fo...@univ-mlv.fr | fo...@univ-mlv.fr ]
> wrote:
>> No, i disagree about to things
>> - try
> On May 8, 2020, at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Gibbons
> wrote:
>
> On 5/7/20 11:48 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
>> This isn't a one-time change. I'm sure there's more work to do in JLS and
>> JVMS, as the need arises, and various other parts of the ecosystem
>> (reflection APIs, javac error messages, javado
> On May 7, 2020, at 6:57 PM, fo...@univ-mlv.fr wrote:
>
> Yes, the JLS explicily says that an annotation type is an interface so it's a
> reified type, you can create array of them and declare member types in it
> (even i never seen a code like that),
> all other things are different,
So it
On 5/7/20 11:48 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
This isn't a one-time change. I'm sure there's more work to do in JLS and JVMS,
as the need arises, and various other parts of the ecosystem (reflection APIs,
javac error messages, javadoc output, JDK code internals, third-party tools,
etc.) may want to s
On 5/7/2020 4:19 PM, Alex Buckley wrote:
We ought to be able to represent the taxonomy in a table, where any
combination of row title and column title gives something meaningful:
| Declaration | Type
-
Class C
