BoD wrote: > How about saying f*ck to backwards compatibility? New projects use the > new (new) reified collections, and old code stays with the current > erasure system. And old and new code don't talk to each other. I could > live with that! > And some of us have millions of lines of code and hundreds of third party libraries that have grown over the past decade that all needs to talk together -- and still need Java to move forward, just without marooning all of this or creating "new" and "old" ghettos.
-- Jess Holle > Frederic Simon wrote: > >> What Alex Buckley said on Java7 BOF: >> There is an experimental project doing reification and the mess of >> mixed types: Type with no generics, Type with erased generics, and >> Type with reified generics... Generate a Big pile of typing mud :) >> >> What I say: >> I don't know what is needed for the JVM to manage reified type (may be >> nothing?), and that's needed for sure. >> We need to have a good reified language that has clean API (mainly >> collections) with enforced generics, which is not Java. And then the >> integration type mud is manegeable (still hard but doable). >> In Java itself it's going to be a nightmare! >> >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Was anything said a Devoxx over the reification of generics in >> Java 7 at all? I do so hope that makes it in... >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Alan Kent <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I think having generics is a big step forward over not having >> generics - I use them a lot too. Just avoiding casts for >> every ArrayList get call is a big win. >> >> >> -- >> "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized >> code." -- Bill Harlan >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.jfrog.org/ >> http://freddy33.blogspot.com/ >> http://nothingisinfinite.blogspot.com/ >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
