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Intro to Reflection, Shallow Reflective Access code explanations unclear #279
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In Tutorials > Introduction to Java Reflection, Shallow Reflective Access section, I noticed that the explanation...
"We are going to take a List of items and then search through the Collections class to see whether we can find any methods that we can give the method to."
...the part at the end "we can give the method to" is not correct. It is not a method that is being given to the other methods, it is a List object.
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authentictech commentedon Sep 12, 2026
I also think that there are a couple of lines in the code example that could do with an explanation even if it is not totally pertinent to reflection. After all, as a tutorial mainly for beginners, not everything is obvious and a little additional learning beside the main topic is appreciated.
map(i -> i - '0')- I think it needs a comment explaining that this is a way to translate acharcode point to thechar's equivalentintvalue.method.invoke(null, pi)- Add an explanation that the null first argument is necessary when invoking static methods.