For further consideration... (original) (raw)

Joseph D. Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Tue Mar 24 16:17:11 PDT 2009

rssh at gradsoft.com.ua wrote:

* Strings in switch, Joe Darcy * Improved Exception Handling for Java, Neal Gafter * Automatic Resource Management, Josh Bloch * Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation, Jeremy Manson * Elvis and Other Null-Safe Operators, Written by Neal Gafter and submitted by Stephen Colebourne * Simplified Varargs Method Invocation, Bob Lee

...... scope of the changes. The email list should focus on improving the selected proposals and on getting any remaining new proposals submitted; continued discussion of the other proposals is discouraged. The final list of small language changes will be determined after the call for proposals is over so proposals sent in this week are certainly still in the running! So, as I understood: - work for improving enhanced strings literals proposal will be useless, it's finally rejected in project coin (?),[ so will wait for java 7.1 or later with them]

Correct; enhanced strings literals will not be one of the final language change selections of Project Coin.

- improving proposal about access to compile-time information about local context can have some sence (?)

Given the existing capabilities of annotation processors, I don't think the proposed API is necessary or desirable.

For other proposals which are not accepted and interesting for me: Are exists change that naming parameters proposal will be in short list ?

Method resolution is one of the most complicated aspects of the Java Language Specification; adding another wrinkle to the selection process is quite a tricky undertaking. I don't think that change as a good cost/benefit trade off.

-Joe

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