On Jul 14, 2012 12:35 AM, "John Rose" <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: >> I have run into my first obvious behavioral difference between the new >> and old code: the "name" argument (2nd arg) to bootstrap methods was >> interned under the old backend, but is not in the new backend. I don't >> know if there's anything in the spec to indicate it should be >> interned, but I figured I'd bring it up. It was the source of many >> test failures in JRuby because we had a key BSM that expected interned >> Strings. > > > Oops, I'll intern the strings. I see no reason not to. It is slightly surprising when strings which originate in the constant pool are *not* interned.
Yeah, that's where my expectation came from. Granted, the name alone is not found in the constant pool, but it still seemed like it should be interned. - Charlie (mobile)
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