[Kaffe] ease of use patch.

Alex Nicolaou anicolao at mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Feb 24 09:49:55 PST 1999


Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> Also, names containing `$' are reserved for accessor methods for inner
> classes, but you can use them in bytecode.

Am I reading the wrong spec or something? I just finished correcting
someone else who claimed $ was not allowed in identifiers; I don't see
that language in the spec, and the compiler certainly doesn't stop me.
Which version of the JLS supports your claim?

alex


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