[Bug-kawa] [bug #32585] Class.getMethods

[Per Bothner]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #32585 (project kawa):

This isn't a bug, but how things are supposed to work.

CLASS:METHOD_NAME searches for a static field or method of the CLASS.  And
CLASS isn't necessarily a CLASS_NAME - it could be any expression that
evaluates to type Class or gnu.bytecode.Type.

In other words - the colon notation doesn't work when trying to get get
methods of class Class itself.

This inconsistency is unfortunate, but I don't know if there is any better
solution.  Perhaps using different operators for static and instance members
might have been better.  However, using methods of Class is higher-level
programming, so application programmers should rarely do it.

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