On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:

> As an aside, I've thought it was a bit of design error that implicit 
> compilation was the default.

Me too.

> 
> Since JDK 6 there has been a javac option that can be used to disable 
> implicit compilation, -implicit:none.
> 
> Perhaps this option could be used in some portion of the JDK build.

The build infrastructure work will be using that. No more implicit compilations.

In the existing Makefiles, adding in -implicit:none might break some of them, 
the Makefiles have relied on this
implicit compilation for a while now.

-kto

> 
> -Joe

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