Coin Considerations (original) (raw)

Stefan Schulz schulz at e-spirit.de
Sat Mar 14 09:30:59 PDT 2009

Stephen Colebourne schrieb:

Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:

  • factory interfaces (an interface to describe constructors and static methods). I've got a simple way to do it, but I don't think its simple enough for coin.

I'd be interested in the "simple way". Is there anything for reading? :)

See https://kijaro.dev.java.net/ static implements. And yes, its a great idea, but too complex for Coin.

I must admit that I didn't get very far with the prototype, not having the time to dwelve deep into the compiler. It further requires some additional information to be put into class files, hence, it might easily be out of scope for Coin. (In the prototype, I made use of the attributes section of a class description to not have to change the class file format. It would at least require a change in the VM specification wrt. the new attribute, I guess. And there are lots of issues to solve wrt. Generics in static interfaces, some of which I named in my blog.)

Stefan

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