Alexey Solofnenko wrote:
On JavaOne SUN presented something similar for Java 7. The syntax is not finilized yet - there are problems - <> characters are used in Java generics. They thinking about using # character, but it does not look good. IBM's compiler does not support generics - it is 1.4 only.
1. I wish jikes would move up to 1.5; my life is spent waiting for things to compile again.
2. <> looks ugly in generics; it should stay in XML where it belongs. Maybe that shows the price of copying c++ too slavishly (except I still think they should haved stuck to bool instead of boolean)
3. I fear there may be a limit to how well you can take the existing java syntax and make it better for XML, just as with C-omega. Functional and AI languages are a much more natural fit to working with complex graphs/trees of XML data.
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