On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 17:04, Ivo Danihelka wrote: > It's interesting that both javac and jikes compile it successfuly.
>From the Sun public specifications, section 7.5.2: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/packages.doc.html <quote> It is not a compile-time error to name the current package or java.lang in a type-import-on-demand declaration. The type-import-on-demand declaration is ignored in such cases. </quote> That must be why the other compilers blow it off. Also, in the same section, import statements of the form import package.typename.* are valid. (Try compiling with 'import java.math.BigDecimal.*' for example.) Looks like a compiler bug to me. Submitted to upstream maintainer. Is there any extra reason to add it to the Debian BTS? -Jonathan
