That would be nice, but no definitely not, Oracle is just as conservative as Sun (and much less open about it). I believe Neal Gafter wrote a proposal for how it could be done gracefully, but has since left Sun/Google and judging on the Coin list, has his issues with the way Oracle moves things "forward".
On Apr 29, 8:26 pm, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:06 -0700, Casper Bang wrote: > > Microsoft added stuff to their version of Java (delegates...), while > > removing other things (JNI...), which Anders Hejlsberg thought were a > > terrible mess. Microsoft was eventually forced to name it J++ and show > > a disclaimer that this wasn't Java... essentially forcing Microsoft to > > go back to the drawing board and come up with what would eventually > > becomes C#. Since then, a lot of other stuff has shown up in > > "Microsoft's version of Java" only to be added to the official Java > > later (enum's, annotation etc.), lately it's dynamic language support, > > automatic resource management, lambda expressions etc. > > So will Oracle remove type erasure so that full type information is > available at runtime? > > -- > Russel. > =========================================================================== == > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w:www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload -- 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.
