I would recommend also talking to Brian & the Lambdas EG. Ben
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Balchandra Vaidya < balchandra.vai...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Jochen, > > There could be multiple issues here and will require further > information. I am copying hotspot-dev mailing list for further > guidance. > > > Thanks > Balchandra > > > > > On 11/19/13 03:29 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> Dalibor and Rory suggested I comment on how well Groovy works with >> jdk8-ea. I thought I write directly to the mailing list here to share the >> problems. >> >> So I used 1.8.0-ea-b115 and run our test suite to give a short overview. >> Of course we have to look into those issues in detail at some point. >> Anyway, we get 31 (out of 6107) failing tests. >> >> All failures seem to be related to default methods. >> >> We have some helper methods we add to our classes and for example a class >> extending LinkedList gets a helper method stream() and tries to call it >> with invokeSpecial. The result is a VerifyError. The majority of problems >> are like that. Of course that means tests involving these classes have not >> been executed. >> >> We get also several null pointer exceptions, which seem to be related to >> List#sort. We ourselves provide a sort(Comparable) method on Iterable, but >> that method returns a List. The default method List#sort(Comparable) is >> void and hides the Iterable one, thus the method will return null and >> subsequent calls on the result fail with NPEs. >> >> Those name clashes are a bit problem here I must say. Sure, we can rename >> our method, but numerous examples out there use it. And worse, our method >> is not mutating, the jdk one is. I am not yet sure what we will do about >> that in general. >> >> bye Jochen >> >> >
