On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well no matter how you cut it, the amount of stuff that has been > dropped is staggering > Well, I find the amount of stuff that's going in to the language in Java 7 to be staggering and even worrying. You could say we're looking at a bigger release than Java 5. We're still discovering unexpected interactions and trying to fix problems introduced in Java 5 (check out the generics discussions on the OpenJDK lists, not to mention my varargs proposal). Project Coin has 7 proposals, one of which is the not-at-all-small language support for JSR-292: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/001131.html We have JSR-308 (Annotations on Types): http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=308 We have JSR-294 Modules: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=294 That's 9 changes. Java 5 had 7: generics, varags, autoboxing, enum, foreach, annotations, static import. We should spend more time polishing existing features before we pile more on, especially if those features touch the already-complex type system. Thanks, Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
