Re: RFR (L) 8037210: Get rid of char-based descriptions 'J' of basic types

2014-03-18 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Mar 14, 2014, at 4:28 AM, Vladimir Ivanov vladimir.x.iva...@oracle.com wrote: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/8037210/webrev.00/ https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8037210 953 lines changed: 425 ins; 217 del; 311 mod This is a massive cleanup of JSR292 code to replace

Re: RFR (L) 8037210: Get rid of char-based descriptions 'J' of basic types

2014-03-18 Thread John Rose
On Mar 18, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Christian Thalinger christian.thalin...@oracle.com wrote: Why are we not using an Enum instead of an untyped byte? Byte is moderately typed, in the sense (which I rely on during development) that you can't assign an int or char to a byte w/o a cast. That's why it

Re: RFR (L) 8037210: Get rid of char-based descriptions 'J' of basic types

2014-03-18 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Mar 18, 2014, at 2:35 PM, John Rose john.r.r...@oracle.com wrote: On Mar 18, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Christian Thalinger christian.thalin...@oracle.com wrote: Why are we not using an Enum instead of an untyped byte? Byte is moderately typed, in the sense (which I rely on during