On Oct 7, 12:33 am, Christian Catchpole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>  Things like inner
> classes and generics were implemented arguably as hacks, without a JVM
> spec change.

The second edition of the VM spec introduced the InnerClasses
attribute. As far as I recall there was another minor change in the
class file format in the timeframe when generics were introduced, I
don't remember if it was directly related, though.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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