On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:28:04 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stu...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> unfortunately, your patch will make backporting more difficult. We cannot > downport it to older releases compiled with older compilers. But since it > touches a lot of files it will sit smack in the middle of patch sequences, > requiring manual merges for patches after it. > > Is there any benefit to using the new syntax compared to the old one? It does > seem similar verbose, so I don't see any benefit there. I have to agree with Thomas here. Newer is not always better. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11081
