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		mnd999 on July 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Java type system is broken Except they didn’t - they introduced annotations at the same time and bumped the class file version for that.

jeremyjh on July 19, 2018 [–]

Changing the class file doesn't necessarily break backwards compatibility. Are you saying a 1.4 JVM couldn't run 1.3 bytecode?

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