On Sep 17, 5:38 am, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe Darcy recently cited discussion threads in which the source > statement was supposedly found to be problematic. > > I perused them -- and didn't see any substantive problems uncovered in > the course of those discussions. > > Personally I think a source statement would be a good thing. Otherwise > if you have a large set of sources in a module you have to go through > all sorts of shenanigans to compile some stuff with -source x and others > with -source y. This configuration is unnecessarily complex and is > fragile -- since the information is separate from the source files.
A 'source' keyword is a terrible idea because it does not sufficiently model the kinds of compatibility needed in practice. That is properly the job of versioning in a module system. The bigger issue regarding Java language changes is that Sun is expected to listen to thousands of ideas per year *and give detailed responses as to how those ideas could be made workable*. Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
