>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> I would certainly be interested in contributing to a branch Andrew> working on 1.5 support, as I would also gain some exposure to Andrew> it then as well. Let's make a 1.5 branch and see what happens. Mark, what do you think? Worst case is that nobody does anything there. Andrew> Some stuff, as already mentioned, Andrew> could go straight into the main branch. The StringBuilder class (a Andrew> non-thread-safe version of StringBuffer) and a few other bits are Andrew> obvious candidates Yes, I would say the rule should be "if jikes and gcj can compile it, it can go on the main branch". Andrew> The hardest thing would seem to be the generics (Java's Andrew> templates -- is it or me or does it seem strange that Java Andrew> 1.5/5.0 is basically bringing back in lots of C++ features, Andrew> mainly as a result of C# having them?). I think there's no question that Java is being strongly influenced by C#. Don't confuse Java's generics with C++ templates though. They are superficially similar (have a vaguely similar goal and syntax), but generics are much, much simpler and work in a fundamentally different way. Andrew> Generics are added to a lot of the core classes, notably java.util's Andrew> collections. Would adding this mean that compilers and code would need Andrew> to be 1.5 ready? Yes, the compilers will need a lot of work. The runtimes will also need some work, as there is new reflection data to keep around. Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
