Re: java.lang.Class comment bug

[John Keiser]

On 26 Jul 2001 18:00:59 -0400, Brian Jones wrote:
> Patrick Doyle <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The comments in vm/reference/java/lang/Class.java say this:
> > 
> >    The name of an array class is <CODE>[&lt;type name&gt;</CODE> ... for
> >    example, String[]'s class is <CODE>[java.lang.String</CODE>.
> > 
> > According to the J2SE documentation, the name of an array class uses the
> > name of the element type in "Java signature format".  Thus, String[]'s
> > class should be "[Ljava.lang.String;".
> > 
> > Note that this is still not the same name as would appear in a constant
> > pool entry, because that would use slashes instead of periods.
> 
> I changed the javadoc entry, thanks.
> 
> Brian

Does our implementation actually do it this way?  And how does Sun's
Java behave?  I remember this seeming strange to me when I wrote the
doc.

--John