Ah. Generating readable Java is a different kettle of fish to compiling to Java, indeed.
I had 50 lines of Scala generating 3000 lines of 'readable', fully Javadocced, boilerplatetastic Java code (it was for making type-safe builders for a number of CGI-style queries). Great, but yuck at the same time. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I don't think there isn't much that wont compile to Java.. But > it might come down to how cryptic unmaintainable the result is if your > boss insists you "stick to java". > > On Oct 6, 3:25 pm, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Some languages with decent type systems can compile to C, so why not to Java? >> >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Christian Catchpole >> >> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think it would be awesome if we had langauges which would cross- >> > compile cleanly to and from Java. Of course, the langauge would have >> > to closly align with Java's type system (not do too many special >> > tricks) if you want it to coexist with vanilla Java. Of course some >> > features just might not have a java equiv. >> >> > So lombok taken to another level. Reinier would probably be best to >> > comment on some if the finer points of the whole idea. >> >> > -- >> > 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 >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
