An unintended interaction

[Zakharov, Vladimir]

I too feel it is harmless. Not even mostly harmless, just harmless. I feel it is not more unexpected than having main() running in an abstract class…

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From: lambda-spec-experts-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:lambda-spec-experts-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Bourrillion
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 2:24 AM
To: Brian Goetz
Cc: lambda-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: An unintended interaction

I also feel this is harmless.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com<mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
If you have:

  public interface Foo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.out.println("Foo!");
    }
  }

you can say
  java Foo

and it will run.  Is that what we intended?  Should the java launcher detect this and not look for main() methods in interfaces?



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