[news.eclipse.tools] Re: [jdt debug] This must be a joke

["Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I filed http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31907 on this.

Bob

"Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > To clarify, you *can* make only statics visible, and not static finals.
> (I'm
> > sure you're probably on M5 already and know this).  And, you can make
> finals
> > visible, without statics.  But you cannot make both visible
> simultaneously,
> > because doing so shows you static finals too.
>
> There are four boolean combinations; there should be four rows.
>
>                static final
> static          1      0
> final            0      1
> static final   1     1
> none           0     0
>
> Currently, the table is interpreted as the "or" of the row values, but it
> could be interpreted as above with equal clarity and greater expressive
> power. It is worth going to the extra trouble because very few people want
> to see constants in the debugger, but many people want to see non-final
> statics and non-static finals.
>
> Bob
>
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