On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:53:14 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
>> commit since the last revision:
>>
>> Relax displayName spec
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/constant/ClassDesc.java line 278:
>
>> 276:
>> 277: /**
>> 278: * {@return a human-readable name for this {@code ClassDesc}}
>
> I don't see the merit of making the string representation unspecified. The
> implSpec already specifies the string representation for the display name.
> Why not just promoting it to normal spec text?
I believe the specification for class or interface display name is too tight:
if we have `java.awt.List` versus `java.util.List`, our current implementation
prints `List` for both cases. It makes sense for an implementation to print
something like `j.a.List` versus `j.u.List`.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20665#discussion_r1811560821
