Authored by: bugstomper on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 10:58 PM EDT |
But what about
"Judge Alsup to Oracle: 1) I want to know the 12 classes not in the JLS and
their methods"
Is is possible he asked about the 12 classes that _are_ in the JLS? If he asked
about 12 that are _not_ in the JLS, could have Serevan gotten it that wrong and
listed all 12 as examples of classes that are not in the JLS?
If I count the ones mentioned in section 4.3.1, 4.3.2, and 4.3.3 plus Threads
which are mentioned in Chapter 17, I get 12 classes in all.
Boolean, Byte, Short, Character, Integer, Long, Float, Double, Object, Class,
String, Thread
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Authored by: BitOBear on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 11:55 PM EDT |
By reading context I don't see anything to indicate that you got the relevant
section wrong. That's the only reason for the judges later "go ahead and
show me those if you dare" request for the 12 classes.
I think it more likely that the Witness misheard or misunderstood the question
and thought he was supposed to recite the classes that -were- in the JLS to show
that "out of 14,000 or so, only 12 are mentioned" more or less.
I know for a fact there are more as Throwable, Exception, Error, and a number of
the final exceptions dealing with null references and out of memory conditions
and such are explicitly included in the JLS.
The relevant observation is that the language needs, and calls out, a tiny
percentage of the library, while the library needs the entirety of the language.
Sun made a pretty big mistake by lumping the whole library complex into one
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Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 12:55 PM EDT |
Really.
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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