Generation of synthesized parameters (original) (raw)

Peter Jensen peter.jensen at oracle.com
Fri Feb 1 16:22:08 PST 2013

On 02/01/13 15:42, Alex Buckley wrote:

On 2/1/2013 2:50 PM, Peter Jensen wrote:

- For synthetic or mandated parameters, the compiler generates names on the form "argI", except when the specification names the implied parameter for an enum valueOf(). The JLS give the parameter name as "name" (maybe by accident, but nevertheless, it's there). The JLS imposes no constraints on the names of parameters which are implicitly declared. The JLS doesn't care at all about parameters which are not explicitly OR implicitly declared. So a Java compiler has a lot of freedom with names here. Where are you seeing "name" in the JLS? Section 2.3 of the enhanced-metadata spec requires name generation by core reflection, but that's "arg".

8.9.2 Enum Body Declarations

The text says an enum "has the following implicitly declared static methods:"

Anything in the following declarations, that a compiler is normally expected to handle, must thus be handled as if explicitly included in the source. This now include parameter names, and the javadoc comments, for that matter (need to check if javadoc does this)

BTW: the javadoc comments are missing a bit of markup, if this is to be taken completely literally.

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