nestmates spec open issues

[John Rose]

On Oct 25, 2017, at 11:11 PM, David Holmes <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 <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.

— John