Re: Javadoc misprint for DefaultListSelectionModel

Jacob Kjome <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 03:59 PM 5/5/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>That is all true, though you should not be surprised that it compiles. It 
>compiles just fine because:
>
>"Every field declaration in the body of an interface is implicitly public, 
>static, and final. It is permitted to redundantly specify any or all of 
>these modifiers for such fields." (Java Language Specification, 2nd ed. 
>section 9.3)
>
>So apparently if a compiler follows the specification then the concern 
>Jake had about memory consumption doesn't apply. I agree, however, that 
>for the sake of explicitivity (is that a word?) we should declare them 
>public static final.
>
>-shawn

Ahhh.....  Thanks for clearing that up, Shawn :-)

I already made the change.  I think it is probably good practice to be 
explicit about it.  I also made the javadoc change you requested.

Jake
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