Re: Possible to write compiler to Java VM? (I volunteer to summarize)

balld@sunSITE.unc.edu (Donald Ball)
27 Jan 1996 16:03:17 -0500

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From: balld@sunSITE.unc.edu (Donald Ball)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.compilers
Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:03:17 -0500
Organization: SunSITE at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
References: 96-01-037 96-01-063 96-01-073
Keywords: translator, interpreter



Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM> wrote:
>Ah, but Java does have multiple inheritance, with restrictions. In
>Java, a class may be derived from one base class and may implement any
>number of interfaces. But interfaces are simply what C++ calls
>abstract base classes, with the additional restriction that they may
>not contain data members. Thus a Java class that "extends" another


>From the Java language spec, v1.0alpha3:


Variables declared in interfaces are final, public, and static. No
modifiers can be applied. Variables in interfaces must be initialized.


Has this been changed in JDK-v1.0?


- donald
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