"John Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul, I know you were opposed to this sort of thing earlier, but in
> the case of 1.1 vs. 1.2 compilation, as well as this sanity check
> thing, there is a lot of good that would be done.
I still don't believe that we need to ship a 1.1-to-the-exact-spec
version. I don't see anyone getting upset with a hybrid 1.1/1.2
version, which is fully compatible with 1.1.
In the case of sanity checks, and possibly "other" cases which I've
run into (I'd like String.intern() to be compiled as either native or
non-native), I do feel that some type of simple/extremely-primitive
pre-processor might come in handy. Writing something in perl should
be enough. (or we could always use ANTLR (www.antlr.org) for a Java
pre-processor.) Maybe, John, you'd like to write up a spec and get
everyone's opinion? _Simple_ #ifdef and #include primitives should be
plenty.
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Paul Fisher * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
