RFR 8059631: Use of '#' to represent MethodHandle kind is confusing

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Fri Jun 17 22:40:27 UTC 2016


Looks good - my IDE also tells me that RefKind.name is now unused? 
Should it be dropped?

Maurizio

On 17/06/16 23:34, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Trivial review to "tweak" the presentation of method handles in 
> javap's presentation of the constant pool.
>
> 1.  A misleading initial '#' is removed.
> 2.  The description of the kind of MethHandle is changed to use the 
> name given in the JVMS.
>
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8059631
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8059631/webrev
>
> -- Jon



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