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<font size="4"><font face="monospace">Are there some better warnings
you could see coming out of this exploration?</font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/6/2022 9:33 AM, Archie Cobbs
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 2:47 PM Brian Goetz <<a href="mailto:brian.goetz@oracle.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">brian.goetz@oracle.com</a>>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">>> Presumably the
reason for the different treatment is because in general the
qualifying expression could be arbitrarily complex and the
compiler can't be expected to detect any possible
qualification in front of "foo", so why even start down that
road?<br>
> Exactly. Don’t start down that road, unless (1) you
know where it goes, and (2) that it gets somewhere good, and
(3) you can get there before you run out of gas. Don’t
start just because you like the first billboard you see, or
on a road which takes you to a tarpit, or with only enough
supplies to travel on the first day of a week-long trip. I
think we might have all three problems here.<br>
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I think there are two different perspectives on
`MyClass.this.x` that <br>
lead to two different views of the world.<br>
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....<br>
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But I agree overall that this isn't worth spending a lot of
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spec-revision currency on.<br>
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<div>It sounds like there is agreement to leave the spec alone
for the time being.</div>
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<div>I'll retract my PR and leave it up to others to update
and/or resolve JDK-8193904.</div>
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<div>Thanks again for all the good discussion. <br>
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<div>-Archie</div>
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