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

Rémi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Sun Oct 4 11:40:56 UTC 2009

Le 04/10/2009 11:39, Christian Thalinger a écrit :

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

java.lang => Java the language (not the platform)

Exotic identifiers and MethodHandle.invoke calling rules in Java (the language) are not part of the JSR292 spec. JSR 292 => method handle API for any (dynamic?) language

So why java.dyn API should be a 'part' of java.lang ?

Rémi

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