> You have written an excellent > post:http://blogs.sun.com/abuckley/en_US/entry/versioning_in_the_java_plat..., > but I don’t see the relevance to the requested source proposal. No one > is asking you to solve the issues you raise. All people are asking is > that the source statement behaves like the ‘-source’ flag for 1.7 > will.
I am confused. As I understand it, the -source flag allows me to compile sources of one version against the _binaries_ of sources in another version. I thought the idea of the source statement was to compile two sources (which may depend on each other in any way) with different source versions. And the argument against that (again, as I understand it) is that every language change would have to be made compatible with n versions of the language rather than "just" one. For what it's worth, I feel like the language is evolving at a decent speed. The changes being made are not necessarily the ones I would have made, but I was not expecting that. ;) The one thing I really do wish for is better primitives for language interoperability, meaning a standardized types for functions, tuples etc. (I don't need an official explanation why it is or is not coming.) With kind regards Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
