Update on JSR 334 Expert Group activities (original) (raw)

Joe Darcy joe.darcy at oracle.com
Wed Jan 26 12:12:00 PST 2011

On 1/25/2011 8:52 PM, Cay Horstmann wrote:

On 25/01/2011 9:22 p.m., Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: One good reason to disallow multiple underscores is to keep multiple underscores available for future language expansion. Presumably JDK7 isn't the last java release to have new language features. I admit I can't think of anything that would be best served by multiple underscores, but who knows what java needs 5 years from now? Morse code literals, ... .. . . .... .. ... Cheers, .. . ._

..-. .-- .. .--, given that the FCC has dropped the Morse code requirement to obtain an amateur radio license in the US [1], I don't see a growing need for Morse code literals five years hence!

-Joe

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_licensing_in_the_United_States#Technician:_the_first_license_without_Morse_code

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