Stefan, As Thiago suggested, you can move this conversation to gene...@incubator.apache.org: there's a bunch of people who are helping new projects to get into ASF and up to speed on a daily basis.
I, for one, will keep an eye on your email and will chime in as soon as it arrives ;) Good luck! Cos On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 06:41PM, Stefan Reich wrote: > Nice! I'll make it a tech spike. > > Now we should move this discussion somewhere else I guess (sorry for > posting to the list, Mike - I need attention :). Just where? > > Cheers > Am 08.05.2015 17:34 schrieb "Mike Kienenberger" <mkien...@gmail.com>: > > > javaX definitely looks interesting. > > > > I've always wished Java supported named parameter methods like Objective-C. > > > > drawCircleWithRadius:r atX:x y:y; > > instead of > > drawCircle(r, x, y); > > > > I suppose that would conflict with the conditional expression operator > > (b ? t : f) but maybe two colons > > > > drawCircleWithRadius::r atX::x y::y; > > > > Of course, without the smalltalk-esque grouping brackets, maybe it'd > > be too hard to read and parse it in java. Guess the idea would need > > more work. > > > > [renderer drawCircleWithRadius:r atX:[radiusSource xBasedOnInputA:a b:b] > > y:y]; > > versus > > renderer.drawCircleWithRadiusAtXandY(r, > > radiusSource.xBasedOnInputAandB(a, b), y); > > > > doesn't really work as > > > > renderer.drawCircleWithRadius::r atX::radiusSource.xBasedOnInputA::a b::b > > y::y; > > > > Maybe with extra parens... > > > > renderer.(drawCircleWithRadius::r atX::radiusSource.(xBasedOnInputA::a > > b::b) y::y); > > > > but at this point, it stops having the same readability.... > > > > Guess we really need objective C method call syntax for java :) > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo > > <thiag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 08 May 2015 09:18:10 -0300, Stefan Reich > > > <stefan.reich.maker.of....@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi! > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > >> I'd like to find a home (or home-s) for the "JavaX" project ( > > >> http://javax.tinybrain.de). > > > > > > > > > Taking a look . . . :) > > > > > >> > > >> JavaX is a super-extensible version of Java. > > >> > > >> It's probably the easiest way to extend any language existing right now. > > >> > > >> Is there a way to collaborate with Apache? I think I can promise you > > that > > >> this is the way of the future :-) > > > > > > > > > I believe the incubator is the place to start: > > http://incubator.apache.org/ > > > "The Incubator project is the entry path into The Apache Software > > Foundation > > > (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the > > Foundation's > > > efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing > > > external projects wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator." > > > > > > -- > > > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > > > Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer > > > http://machina.com.br > >
