The opposition to moving beyond 1.4.x would be mainly the cost. You have a working application which is stable, you are expending minimal effort maintaining, and suddenly someone is proposing you spend effort/cash to give developers a warm fuzzy feeling and the end user no actual visible benefit.
Hard to justify. Easier to wait until the app is retired. On May 30, 9:57 pm, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote: > The semantics are pretty clear, as you get compile errors when you get > things wrong. > > Java developers *were* used to unsafe casts. I'm regularly in ##java > on freenode IRC and see fewer and fewer people trying to use untyped > collections. It still happens, though mainly by accident. > > I've seen some new Java code using untyped Vectors and Hashtables > recently, but a) the [ir]responsible developers just left b) that > would have happened no matter what Java had done short of removing > Vector and Hashtable. > > -- > Skype: ricky_clarkson > UK phone (forwards to Skype): 0161 408 5260 > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's quite elegant that in general if I update a dependency and that > >> dependency has switched from raw types to generics, I generally have > >> nothing to do. With the .NET approach I would have to marshal between > >> old and new collection types constantly. > > > Yes but at least the semantics would be clear up front right there in > > the type-system and you'd avoid various pitfalls (Java developers are > > used to unsafe casts and unsafe array variance) as well as pave the > > way for a deprecation/migration strategy. Sometimes something must die > > in order to leave the way for something new, or all we get are zombies. > > > -- > > 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.
