Re: Repetitive method name

On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 16:46 +0300, Daniel Sjöblom wrote:
> Ross Bamford wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:09 +0000, Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
> >
> >>Is there a limit to the number of characters in a method's name?
> >>
> > No.
> >
> > There is a limit (of 255 characters) on the canonical representations of
> > the parameters in the signature, but not the name. The name is a UTF-8
> > string from the constant pool.
>
> Nitpick. This is not true. The limit of 255 is on number of parameters
> (calculated in a specific way, long and double parameters are counted
> twice), not on the length of the UTF-8 string. The UTF-8 string cannot
> contain more than 2^16 - 1 characters.
>

Right, it was that bit that threw me. I originally thought it was 255
params, but then looked it up and the double-contributions of double and
long made me doubt myself. I read it as 255 characters after the type id
resolutions.

> > Remember you can't overload on return type alone.
>
> It is very much possible to do so in bytecode. It is however not
> possible to have a static method and an instance method with the same
> name and same descriptor.
>

Intriguing. I've never tried it... What happens when you load the
bytecode?

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