On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:08 -0500, Archie Cobbs wrote: > You're definition of "type" then is the static (compile time type). > But in Java Class objects are associated with runtime types, > not compile time types. I've been confused about this before and > went so far as to document it so I wouldn't get confused again: > > http://jcvm.sourceforge.net/share/jc/doc/jc.html#Classes%20and%20Types >
Aaaahhh.. Well, I did warn people that I was a relative newbie to Java! Thanks for that explanation: things make more sense now. (And hopefully I can use this new distinction to clarify what I really mean to say in future communications.) Keith _______________________________________________ Classpath-patches mailing list Classpath-patches@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath-patches