class finalization and clarifications to JLS

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 16 1998 - 19:41:38 EDT

 Archie, class finalization was dumped by Sun because it's not necessary.
As they state in their rationale, it's not going to cause compatibility
problems because it wasn't implemented...

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/class-finalization-rationale.html

Per Bothner send an interesting URL with clarifications to the JLS:
http://www.javasoft.com/docs/books/jls/clarify.html

        - Godmar

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