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Re: Proposed Java Language Extentions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Fri May 5 14:30:00 1995

From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 00:10:48 -0800 (PDT)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM

Hi Jeremy,

[stuff deleted]
> Also, when I first read the spec I got the impression that the doc
> comments are compiled into the .class file, so that a class you
> download off the net without source is completely self-documenting
> (after processing to generate HTML or whatever).  I was a little
> disappointed to see that javadoc works on the source rather than
> the .class files.

At one point that was what was happening (and it could still be done), 
however it makes the class files bigger, which makes downloading 
slower, so I took it out....

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff

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