JSR-292: Why not java.lang.dyn? (original) (raw)

Christian Thalinger Christian.Thalinger at Sun.COM
Sun Oct 4 09:39:14 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 23:43 -0500, Paul Benedict wrote:

I've always found it a bit perplexing that java.lang was never chosen for the parent package of the Dynamic API. Why is that? Dynamic types are now "part of the language" as proven by spec itself and exotic identifiers. Will this be reconsidered?

[I'm forwarding this question to mlvm-dev.]

I think John Rose or another member of the EG should have an answer to this.

-- Christian



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