Feedback and comments on ARM proposal (original) (raw)

Mark Mahieu markmahieu at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 20 14🔞05 PDT 2009

Or perhaps a marker interface rather than a special package? That
might be more consistent with existing 'special behaviour' (eg.
Serializable).

I definitely like the idea of leaving it to the individual libraries
to decide.

Mark

On 20 Mar 2009, at 21:08, Tim Peierls wrote:

How about using a special package -- java.lang.auto, say -- with initially only one or two interfaces -- AutoCloseable and AutoDisposable, say -- and word the ARM proposal so that only subtypes of interfaces with a single, parameterless method that are declared in this special package are allowed in the ARM try-initialization?

The idea here is to remove the decision about which clean-up methods to support from the current proposal and make it a library design issue. --tim

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