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Diffstat (limited to 'src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/transform/Mixin.scala')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/transform/Mixin.scala | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/transform/Mixin.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/transform/Mixin.scala index dae0deeccd..6c8904f5d0 100644 --- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/transform/Mixin.scala +++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/transform/Mixin.scala @@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ abstract class Mixin extends InfoTransform with ast.TreeDSL { * (need to exclude lambdaLIFTED methods, as they do no exist during explicitouter and thus did not need to be excluded...) * * They may be protected, now that traits are compiled 1:1 to interfaces. - * (The same disclaimers about mapping Scala's notion of visibility to Java's apply.) + * The same disclaimers about mapping Scala's notion of visibility to Java's apply: + * we cannot emit PROTECTED methods in interfaces on the JVM, + * but knowing that these trait methods are protected means we won't emit static forwarders. * + * JVMLS: "Methods of interfaces may have any of the flags in Table 4.6-A set + * except ACC_PROTECTED, ACC_FINAL, ACC_SYNCHRONIZED, and ACC_NATIVE (JLS ยง9.4)." * * TODO: can we just set the right flags from the start?? * could we use the final flag to indicate a private method is really-really-private? |