[1092] in java-interest
Re: Type names and class names ..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Fri Aug 18 15:04:19 1995
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:43:14 -0700
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Mimir Reynisson's message of Thu, 17 Aug 1995 22:02:35 +0000 (WET) <199508172202.WAA19514@brs.is>
> Yuck .. the following java code compiles quite happily under the
> Windows NT alpha 2 version. Please tell me this is only because of
> the hand coded parser, and that this really shouldn't be allowed.
>
> {
> int Object;
> Object = 0;
> Object a;
> a = null;
> }
Well, I'm not expert but it looks to me like it has nothing to do with the
parser; it's that class names and variable names are in the same name space.
This seems like it would lead to terrible ambiguities.
> Mimir Reynisson : skelmir@brs.is
Where is "is"?
M. (in US)
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