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Java 15 hidden classes

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"JEP 371 introduces hidden classes in Java 15. Hidden classes have the following implications to existing code:

`Class::getName` traditionally returns a binary name, but for a hidden class it returns a string that contains an ASCII forward slash (/) and is therefore not a binary name. Programs that assume the returned string is a binary name might need to be updated to handle hidden classes. That said, the longstanding practice of Unsafe::defineAnonymousClass was to define classes whose names were not binary names, so some programs may already handle such names successfully."

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