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Re: java_lang_String.h

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Mon Jun 5 12:48:09 1995

From: jeremy@sour.sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
To: M.C.Little@newcastle.ac.uk (Mark Little)
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 02:32:13 +1000 (EST)
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <199506051047.LAA15027@hawkwell.ncl.ac.uk> from "Mark Little" at Jun 5, 95 11:47:36 am

> It's also now necessary to re-arrange the package and
> import lines in InputFile.java and OutputFile.java because package must
> be the first non-comment in the compilation unit (a change from alpha2
> I suspect).

Yes, but only because it was a compiler bug.  The Java spec says (and
said in Alpha 2) that packages had to be first, before anything else.
The alpha2 compiler didn't enforce it.

	J

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