Name: dbT83986 Date: 02/03/99


in a final class, all methods are implicitly
final, yet reflection does not label them as such.

i was of the understanding (and i think it's in
JLS somewhere) that specifying a method as final
in a final class has no effect. however, this prints
out false

public final class p {
  public void thing() { }
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
    System.out.println(java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isFinal(
         p.class.getMethod("thing", new Class[0]).getModifiers()
    ));
  }
}

whereas declaring thing() to be final causes the
output to be "true". Is this as intended?
(Review ID: 39440)
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