Updated JEP: nestmates
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Thu Apr 13 21:50:21 UTC 2017
> The second part most certainly is necessary as a nest-top does not
> itself have a nest-top!
I would think we'd consider a nest-top as its own nest-top. That way,
every nest has a top, which acts as a canonical element for that nest.
> It is not an optimization! You are either a nest-top (and so have a
> NestMembers attribute) or you are a nested type and so have a
> MemberOfNest attribute. (Of course you can be neither.)
Similarly, I'd think that every class that has neither a NestMembers or
MemberOfNest attribute constitutes a nest of one.
Taken together, now:
- Every class belongs to exactly one nest;
- Every nest has a canonical, consistent nest-top (every member of the
nest agrees on the nest top)
This will become relevant when we extend this to support
Lookup.defineClass with a private lookup, which has the effect of
injecting a new class into an existing nest. If every class is already
in a nest, this injection is simplified.
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