Name Mangling in Java
The language, compiler, and .class file format were all designed together (and had object-orientation in mind from the start), so the primary problem solved by name mangling doesn't exist in implementations of the Java runtime. There are, however, cases where an analogous transformation and qualification of names is necessary.
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