error message bug: interface is not a modifier

Name: ssT124754 Date: 04/04/2001


java version "1.3.0_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0_01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0_01, mixed mode)


This is a minor bug; the error message given when accidentally declaring an
interface inside of a block is wrong, since the keyword interface is never
syntactically a modifier.

class Hello {
  void foo() {
    interface I {}
  }
}

Hello.java:3: modifier interface not allowed here
    interface I {}
    ^
1 error

Instead, it should be something along the lines of:
Hello.java:3: keyword interface not allowed here
(Review ID: 120175)
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