Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:47:52 -0500 (EST)
From: C. Scott Ananian
To: jsr14-prototype-comments@sun.com
Subject: bad signature in prototype 1.2 class file.

The signature for the method java.util.Collections.reverseOrder()
in the 1.2 prototype compiler is:
  <T::Ljava/lang/Comparable<TT;>;>()Ljava/util/Comparator<TT;>;
    ^^
these two adjacent colons do not look to be correct; I think this is a bug
in the (retro-fitting?) compiler.

For what it's worth, the signature of this method in the 1.0 prototype
compiler was:
   ()Ljava/util/Comparator;

No bug, but you also weren't trying to use bounds on the method in this
release.

Please let me know if the double-colon syntax is in fact correct so that I
can handle it appropriately in my javap-for-GJ tool.
 --scott

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