The slide deck contains a list of terminology. I’d like to posit that the most confusion-reducing thing we could do is come up with another word for value types/classes/instances, since the word “value” is already used to describe primitives and references themselves. This is a good time to see if there are better names available.
So for this thread only, we’re turning on the syntax light to discuss what might be a better name for the abstraction currently known as “value classes”. > On Mar 29, 2019, at 12:08 PM, John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > This week I gave some presentations of my current thinking > about specializations to people (from Oracle and IBM) gathered > in Burlington. Here it is FTR. If you read it you will find lots > of questions, as well as requirements and tentative answers. > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201903-TemplateDesign.pdf > > This is a checkpoint. I have more tentative answers on the > drawing board that didn't fit into the slide deck. Stay tuned. > > — John
