Anonymous classes are not final according to reflection API

[John Rose]

But that's a hack too. It breaks if the name computes to a null string. As opposed to the documented null CP ref. 

– John

> On Jul 3, 2015, at 7:17 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On 02/07/15 23:10, Dan Smith wrote:
>> - The JLS assertion "An anonymous class is always implicitly final" is meaningless if it's not interpreted as "the ACC_FINAL flag on the generated class is set", so if we're not going to enforce that, the assertion should be dropped.  (The other assertions in 15.9.5 have language-level implications, but not this, since none of the corresponding language restrictions in 8.1.1.2 could ever arise.)
> unless the VM, javac, and JDK (reflection) agree on a standard form in which anonymous classes are encoded. It seems like reflection has an 'isAnonymousClass' method, whose implementation does the following:
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> public boolean isAnonymousClass() {
>     return "".equals(getSimpleName());
> }
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> So we already have a way to establish if a class is anonymous in the runtime. Which means we also have a way to infer correct finality without touching ACC_FINAL.
> 
> Maurizio
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