[android-developers] Re: Problem With Thread !

That's because the JVM doesn't NEED any other knowledge. The JVM
doesn't define the language -- the compiler does.

The JVM is the environment the compiler targets, but with a different
compiler, you get, say, Scheme or AspectJ instead of Java.

Taking your argument to the logical conclusion, nothing about C++ is
real, because the hardware doesn't know about it. Hmmm....

Solipsism is fun, but not particularly useful.

On Oct 23, 5:53 am, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote:
> > Inner classes certainly exist
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> Only as a fiction of javac.  The JVM has no knowledge of them, other
> than the InnerClasses attribute that's really just for debugging and
> reflections.
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> On Oct 22, 11:17 pm, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote:
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> > There's always been Runnable, yes, but there hasn't always been the
> > cultural emphasis on composition rather than derivation. In other
> > words, I agree it was a mistake, but it was a mistake born of its
> > time, and not one that would be as likely to be repeated today.
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> > Inner classes certainly exist -- they're just broken (only capture
> > final variables). The sense of unreality to which you refer is just an
> > implementation technique, and only visible if you peek below the
> > covers of reality. :) That's true of most any bit of programming
> > semantics you choose to examine that closely.
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> > On Oct 22, 5:15 pm, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote:
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> > > But there's always been a Runnable, and it's no more difficult to
> > > subclass a Runnable than a Thread.  Inner classes made it easier (if
> > > more obscure) to define your subclasses, but didn't change the basic
> > > nature of the beast.  (In fact, in reality inner classes don't exist.)
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> > > On Oct 22, 7:04 pm, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote:

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