Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Instance java.lang.Object.getClass() of Class Java Method on OO Tumia Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:22:13 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <9d6c9c81-3b61-4ee5-b1bb-b399e0f53dc1@s9g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:22:15 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="16855"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18WbcA1euldGdibl9eImbcm" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:k3nTCnf2ZCgP6MyuLtigztg1bSo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11813 On 2/4/2012 11:43 AM, Paka Small wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Clearly a method is also a class which has method instances: > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Method.html > [...] You have confused "method" and "java.lang.reflect.Method". (In a similar vein, you have confused "class" and "java.lang.Class".) A method is not a class, nor a Method, nor a Class. -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid