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

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Updated webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8059631/webrev.01

-- Jon

On 06/17/2016 03:53 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> I'll do a build and test run;  I think it should go if it is unused.
>
> I wasn't sure at first, since most of the names appear in the 3rd 
> column of JVMS 8, Table 5.4.3.5-A
> but the oddball is REF_newInvokeSpecial(8, "newinvokespecial") which 
> isn't a JVMS name.
>
> -- Jon
>
> On 06/17/2016 03:40 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> 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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