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| Compile-time representation of Java type system. |
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| These classes are used as TypeT and ClassDeclT of the model parameterization. |
| This implementaion is designed to be capable of representing pre-existing classes |
| (such as java.lang.String) as well as the generated classes (represented as JDefinedClass.) |
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| <h2>Handling of Primitive Types</h2> |
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| Primitive types have two forms (int and Integer), and this complicates the binding process. |
| For this reason, inside the front end, we always use the boxed types. We'll use the unboxed |
| form only in the back end when we know the field doesn't need to represent the null value. |
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