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

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 06/17/2016 04:33 PM, John Rose wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2016, at 3:53 PM, Jonathan Gibbons 
> <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com <mailto:jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>> 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.
>
> That's because it corresponds to two instructions, new + invokespecial.

Sure, I guessed that, but it didn't seem useful to include that in a 
"name" field, when the enum name
itself is more indicative of a name defined in JVMS.

-- Jon
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