Re: java.lang.Class comment bug

[Patrick Doyle]

On 26 Jul 2001, John Keiser wrote:

> > Patrick Doyle <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > According to the J2SE documentation, the name of an array class uses the
> > > name of the element type in "Java signature format".  Thus, String[]'s
> > > class should be "[Ljava.lang.String;".
> 
> Does our implementation actually do it this way?  And how does Sun's
> Java behave?  I remember this seeming strange to me when I wrote the
> doc.

It seems that every method that matters is either native or private or
both, and this is one of the vm/reference classes, so the behaviour
appears to be entirely up to the JVM.

I haven't implemented it myself yet, so I can't confirm this for sure.

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Patrick Doyle
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