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Subject: array class names
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Does anybody out there know why long[] is called "[J" and Object[]
is called "[Ljava.lang.Object;" rather than the more obvious "[L"
and "[Ojava.lang.Object;" (or maybe "[Rjava.lang.Object;" if 'O'
is too similar a zero)?

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