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Re:The Java type system is broken by mnd999 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:19PM (#17569450)
Except they didn’t - they introduced annotations at the same time and bumped the class file version for that.
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Re:The Java type system is broken by jeremyjh on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:08PM (#17571142)
Changing the class file doesn't necessarily break backwards compatibility. Are you saying a 1.4 JVM couldn't run 1.3 bytecode?
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