You 'feel' that it won't be backward compatible? I like reasons, do you have any of those or only feelings? On Oct 2, 2012 5:36 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:21:06 +0200, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think we are confusing forward compatibility with backwards >> compatibility. Most major releases have introduced something that >> would not compile under a previous release. All releases can run >> things that were valid in a previous release. Not guaranteed to >> compile, as assert used to not be a keyword, but by and large this is >> the case. (I don't recall all of the exceptions.) >> > > Definitely. Java is mostly backward compatible and I feel Java 8 will be > the first exception. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog> - > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
