Dealing with case insensitivity

Bryce McKinlay bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz
Fri Mar 15 16:53:00 GMT 2002


Eric Blake wrote:

>The JLS forbids having a class named java/awt/image if there is a
>subpackage by that name. 
>
>When it comes to deciding between subpackages vs. inner classes, you can
>once again use the rule that no class can have the same name as a
>package to help make the decision.
>

Hmm, interesting. I suspect that gcj is getting this wrong. Implementing 
this rule may go a long way towards solving the problem.

regards

Bryce.




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