Final nestmates spec

[David Holmes]

Hi Dan,

I have one query with regards to the processing of the NestMembers 
attribute. Originally when I wrote the draft I copied the InnerClasses 
text and that included prohibiting duplicate entries in NestMembers. You 
dropped that restriction from the spec (though I haven't yet removed it 
from the VM). How does that interact with the Class.getNestMembers() 
API? Should it return the raw NestMembers contents (which may include 
duplicates - including additional references to "self") or should it 
return the set of members (ie no duplicates, including self)?

Thanks,
David

On 2/12/2017 10:41 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
> I've uploaded what I believe could be a final spec for nestmates, here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlsmith/nestmates.html
> 
> Since October, changes include:
> 
> - Tweaks to the explanatory material in 2.11.8 and 3.7
> 
> - Some restructuring of the new 5.4.4 text to be a little less disruptive and more clearly define "same nest" and "nest host". There are some subtle behavioral differences compared to the previous iteration when errors occur.
> 
> - Added an example to 5.4.5 to illustrate transitive overriding
> 
> —Dan
>