> As long as you have an approved JSR with a mandate to make supporting > language changes, you can make supporting language changes. >
I wouldn't call a change which basically obsoletes the way people have written helper and utility classes for the last 17 years a “supporting change”. >From a user perspective, the move from the “(final) class + private constructor with thrown exception” pattern to static interface methods is probably as huge as from AICs to lambdas. But hey, I guess everything is subjective. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/8_jP2bG1ClQJ. 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.
