On 10/08/2015 09:58 PM, Stuart Marks wrote: > On 10/7/15 12:59 PM, Sebastian Sickelmann wrote: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sebastian/5108778/core-libs/webrev.00/ >> >> jdk: >> The Boolean constructors are @Deprecated now so that we get >> compile-warnings for the uses. See also [0] and [1] >> >> [0] >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2015-September/003804.html >> [1] >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2015-October/003805.html > > > Hi Sebastian, > > I did suggest adding @Deprecated to the Boolean constructors, but only > in your own source tree, as a quick means of causing the compiler to > emit warnings for places where they're used. I don't think we should > actually go ahead and deprecate them at this time. So, please drop the > deprecation changes from your patch. Sorry for the misunderstanding. > > (As I've mentioned elsewhere, there is forthcoming work in the area of > deprecation, so the Boolean constructors will eventually be marked in > some way so that developers will be advised to update their code.)
Please note that "static final Boolean myBool = new Boolean(true).booleanValue()" is a spec-recommended way to avoid binary incompatibilities caused by conditional compilation. See JLS 13.4.9. Therefore, deprecating Boolean constructors is a spec issue as well. Thanks, -Aleksey
