PRE-PROPOSAL: Source and Encoding keyword (original) (raw)
Neal Gafter neal at gafter.com
Sun Mar 15 18:11:38 PDT 2009
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reinier at zwitserloot.com> wrote:
As I've mentioned at least twice on coin-dev already, the JLS only needs to specify how the 'source' keyword sets the 'source' property of the CompilationUnit that contains the source keyword. As far as the JLS is concerned, this is a string value that has no further meaning. It's a bit like a comment in this sense. To be crystal clear: ** The JLS will NOT specify what is supposed to happen when you write "source 1.1;" in a JLSv3 view of the source file! **
That's fine, as long as the compiler obeys the language specification (recognizing ALL keywords in the spec, etc) in order to obey the platform specification. In which case I don't see what the purpose of placing this thing in the source file was in the first place.
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