Re: [OT] Java complaint Was: Re: Environment variables for Debian (e.g. JAVA_HOME, etc)
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:17:14PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Colin Watson:
> > I think it's probably something to do with '.' being the namespace
> > separator, and you could in theory have wanted foo/class.class ... but I
> > agree that a special-case check would alleviate a lot of confusion.
>
> While SomeClass.class is indeed a valid expression, it refers to the
> class object of an instance. But as far as I can tell,
> SomeClass.class can never denote a class because "class" is a keyword.
Good call. My Java is rusty (for which I am to some extent grateful).
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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