On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:38:07 +0200, Ricky Clarkson
<[email protected]> wrote:
I wouldn't see reification as a disaster for Java if it did arrive, not
sure whether Fabrizio is basing this on reason or feelings again.
You know, I'm not an expert of these things, so it must be at least
partially feeling. But I don't see how could be possible to introduce
reification without sacrificing part of the backward compatibility. I'm
with Sun and Oracle on this, it's an important aspect, because I see how
reluctant people are to move to a new version (even in this period when
JDK 6 is going EOL, I don't know a customer who's going to move, with the
exception of a single project where I've been the lead and I prepared
everything for a smooth transition to JDK 7, and there are chances we move
in the next weeks. I see the introduction of reification as a big increase
of the cost of my former two migration steps (see my previous email) and,
as Cédric said, just a small value in return.
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