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[Remi Forax]

I hope we can still define "The other Value Type" :)

Remi


On March 5, 2019 3:42:19 PM UTC, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>On Mar 5, 2019, at 8:53 AM, Frederic Parain
><frederic.parain at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> To add some fuel to the fire, JLS and JVMS are not the
>> only specifications of the Java platform. Looking at the JNI spec,
>the
>> term “Value Type” is already defined:
>> 
>>
>https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jni/spec/types.html#the_value_type
>
>Even worse, it defines "The Value Type".  I guess that's it,
>we can't define any more?  :-)
>
>— John

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