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From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Poll: Is a Java Method an Instance of the Java Class java.lang.reflect.Method? Please reply with YES or NO.
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On 2/5/2012 8:56 AM, Paka Small wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Poll: Is a Java Method an Instance of the Java Class
> java.lang.reflect.Method?
>
> Please put YES or NO as the first word in your reply. Add comments
> after it if you wish.
>
> I'll make a YES/NO count after some time.
>
> Kind regards, Paka

NO

Though I think a little JLS reading would be better than a poll.

Historically, JDK 1.0 had methods, but not java.lang.reflect. If methods
were instances of java.lang.reflect.Method they could not have existed
before the class existed.

Patricia