Martin Buchholz wrote:
I just tried to reproduce the failure ... and could not,
so it may have been either my fuzzy memory,
or perhaps some issue with the import JDK
not being sufficiently up to date.
Sorry for wasting bandwidth...
Standard response to
Q: Shouldn't we start using the diamond operator?
A: Yes. Write a very clever script and convert the jdk sources.
Make sure the JDK can still be built from scratch using only jdk6.
Martin
Yep; "We have the technology." Full builds bootstrapping with JDK 6
will be part of the testing required before such a change can occur.
-Joe