nestmates spec open issues

[David Holmes]

On 27/10/2017 12:02 PM, John Rose wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2017, at 11:11 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com 
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Please don't throw IAE that case.  I don't want to bikeshed exception 
>>> types,
>>> but I think we have a strong precedent for using ICCE when encountering
>>> a questionable classfile configuration (one that shouldn't have come 
>>> out of
>>> javac).  Note also the ICCE <: VME, so it just gets passed through.
>>
>> You must have missed Dan's update regarding access checks. He's 
>> already proposed to throw IAE - and I've implemented it. :)
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlsmith/nestmates.html
>>
> 
> Actually, IllegalAccessError is not too terrible, although
> I'd prefer ICCE for reasons stated.
> 
> I read IAE as "IllegalArgumentException", which explains
> the warmth of my response.  Why did I think you meant
> IllegalArgumentException?  *That* is unexplainable.

Sorry - it never occurred to me that IAE was an overloaded acronym. :)

David

> 
> — John