many hard problems become solvable with a module system. that's why it's the most important feature for JDK 7 On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> > These are (easily) solvable problems. Especially with a module system. > > On Sep 18, 7:05 pm, Alex Buckley <alex.buck...@sun.com> wrote: >> On Sep 17, 5:51 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Alex, 'source' simply acknowledges that java (the language) syntax >>> and >>> java (the runtime library) dependencies are utterly unrelated >>> things. >> >> Incorrect. Language features often rely on library features. >> Seehttp://blogs.sun.com/abuckley/en_US/entry/versioning_in_the_java_plat >> ... >> for examples. >> >>> Why MUST they track each other? In practice that already doesn't >>> happen: Code compiled on javac6 is routinely run on jvm5, and vice >>> versa. javac has -source and -target parameters for a reason. >> >> javac6 can emit ClassFiles for jvm5 precisely because no source >> language changes happened in java6. >> >> javac5 can emit ClassFiles for jvm6 because Sun's compatibility >> policy >> generally prohibits the removal of features from jvm_n in jvm_n+1. >> >> This discussion precisely demonstrates my earlier point. Some people >> don't merely suggest a language feature; they demand a detailed >> interactive discussion with Sun on the feature. Luckily, I can short- >> circuit this one because I wrote a detailed and closely related blog >> entry. But there are millions of people with suggestions, and no >> company in the world has enough employees to address each and every >> one. >> >> Alex > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
