PROPOSAL: Method and Field Literals (original) (raw)

Kevin Bourrillion kevinb at google.com
Wed Mar 11 08:55:09 PDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:

- Constructor literals have to be included. If you don't then developers will find it an unexplained gap. See FCM section 2.2 which uses Type#(argTypes)

Yes, and the worst case scenario is to mimic the Javadoc syntax: ArrayList#ArrayList(int).

- I would use Field/Method/Constructor, as a key goal is to enable integration with existing frameworks.

Absolutely positively.

- I believe that adding generics to Field and Method (the return type) is a key part of this change.

Is it possible to keep that API change and this language change orthogonal?

-- Kevin Bourrillion @ Google internal: http://go/javalibraries google-collections.googlecode.com google-guice.googlecode.com



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