Name: apC46001 Date: 01/13/97



The test demonstrating this bug uses fully qualified name as constructor name.
But '.' can not be used in identifier. JLS requires to issue a compiler-time error
in this case. See the proper quotations below.

The section "8.6 Constructor Declaration" of The Java Language
Specification contains the following:

"The SimpleTypeName in the ConstructorDeclarator must be the simple name of the class that contains the constructor declaration; otherwise a compile-time error
occurs. "

The section "3.8 Identifiers" of The Java Language
Specification contains the following:

" Identifier:

               IdentifierChars but not a Keyword or BooleanLiteral or NullLiteral

       IdentifierChars:

               JavaLetter

               IdentifierChars JavaLetterOrDigit

       JavaLetter:

               any Unicode character that is a Java letter (see below)

       JavaLetterOrDigit:

               any Unicode character that is a Java letter-or-digit (see below)

Letters and digits may be drawn from the entire Unicode character set,
which supports most writing scripts in use in the world today,
including the large sets for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This allows
Java programmers to use identifiers in their programs that are written
in their native languages.

A Java letter is a character for which the method
Character.isJavaLetter (20.5.17) returns true. A Java letter-or-digit
is a character for which the method Character.isJavaLetterOrDigit
(20.5.18) returns true.

The Java letters include uppercase and lowercase ASCII Latin letters
A-Z (\u0041-\u005a), and a-z (\u0061-\u007a), and, for historical
reasons, the ASCII underscore (_, or \u005f) and dollar sign ($, or
\u0024). The $ character should be used only in mechanically generated
Java code or, rarely, to access preexisting names on legacy systems."


-------------------clss19501.java-------------------
package javasoft.sqe.tests.lang.clss195.clss19501;


import java.io.PrintStream;
 
class clss19501_a {
boolean isletter;
javasoft.sqe.tests.lang.clss195.clss19501.clss19501_a() {
isletter = Character.isLetter('.');
}
}

public class clss19501 {
  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
     System.exit(run(argv, System.out) + 95/*STATUS_TEMP*/);
  }
  public static int run(String argv[],PrintStream out) {
   clss19501_a x;
   x = new clss19501_a();
out.println("isletter = "+x.isletter);
return 2;
  }
}

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javac clss19501.java -d .
clss19501.java:16383: Invalid method declaration; return type required.

^
1 warning

java javasoft.sqe.tests.lang.clss195.clss19501.clss19501
isletter = false

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