JCReceiverVariableDecl

Alex Buckley alex.buckley at oracle.com
Wed May 8 17:25:21 PDT 2013


On 4/10/2013 5:06 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Question, on line 867,
>          // TODO: do we want a separate tag?
>
> Answer, yes, and a new Tree.Kind and a corresponding new subtype of Tree.
>
> Reason: imagine someone wanting to walk the tree -- they need to be able
> to get at the "nameexpr" field.
>
> The alternative would be to pack the qualified name into the "name"
> field.  The uugh-ness of that depends on what the EG decides for the
> specification of the qualified name.

What qualified name has an unclear specification?

Alex


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