2013/5/16 David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com>: >> +1 >> >> I think it should also blow at runtime unless people passes some fancy >> argument (like -XX:recallRetired :), this way is easier for people to >> fix their code, or, in case they can't, do workaround it. > > > Interesting suggestions but I for one do not think that after 15 years of > deprecation we need to go to such lengths to keep stop(Throwable) on > life-support - it is @Deceased in my opinion :) >
Hi David, In fact, I fully agree for Thread.stop we should probably just do as you suggest and kill it :) but my interest shifted to the @Retired annotation which could be a nice general thing to have (Thread.stop could actually be a test case for it). Ideally, by Java 9, we could go through most of the @Deprecated and convert them to @Retired and give one platform lifetime to make people adjust their code. Java 10 could be finally free of all those ancient vestiges of a glorious past :) Cheers, Mario -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF IcedRobot: www.icedrobot.org Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ Read About us at: http://planet.classpath.org OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/
