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| | From the beginning of the introduction of [[http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/JLS/innerclasses.pdf|inner classes]] in Java, developers knew that it would be a mess... and it has been proven again and again. Here is a recent example. Take the following (academic) piece of code: |
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| | <code> |
| | public class Anonymous { |
| | public void foo() { |
| | class B {} |
| | new B(); |
| | } |
| | } |
| | </code> |
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| | Compile it with your standard Java compiler ''javac''. On both MacOS and Windows, there are two files generated... **BUT**, these two files have different names (!), thus throwing on the ground some of the dedicated [[PADL]] tests (in particular in project [[PADL Creator ClassFile|PADL Creator ClassFile Tests]]) |
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| | * On MacOS |
| | * ''Anonymous.class'' |
| | * ''Anonymous$1B.class'' |
| | * On Windows |
| | * ''Anonymous.class'' |
| | * ''Anonymous$1$B.class'' |
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| | Did you notice the difference? on MacOS, the file describing the inner class is named ''Anonymous$1B.class'' with only one $ sign; on Windows, its name is ''Anonymous$1$B.class'' with two $ signs. **Sigh...** |
