Bob Jamison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I can think of one major thing that restricts the use of Make on Java.
> The wizards at Sun, when they implemented inner classes, decided
> to use $ as the class name separator, like
> MyClass$SomeThread.class
> (why, O why, not % or @ or something else! ;-( )
Because those characters aren't legal in class and method names in the
VM spec. Changing the VM spec wasn't an option; if inner classes
required a new VM, they simply wouldn't have succeeded. '$' is legal
in class and method names, but the language spec has always stated
that it should only be used in mechanically generated source code.
So '$' was really the only character they could've used.
--
Glenn Vanderburg
Delphi Consultants, LLC
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