That doesn't seem to be the case, I can run successfully, as long as I have the 
right -addmods.
I've pushed my example here if you want to take a further look at it: 
https://github.com/paulbakker/automaticmodules-example 
<https://github.com/paulbakker/automaticmodules-example>

Paul


> On 25 Apr 2016, at 08:29, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 24/04/2016 21:00, Paul Bakker wrote:
>> So when modules B, C and D are automatic modules and named module A depends 
>> on B, A also gets implicit readability to C and D?
>> What is the reasoning behind this automatic implicit readability? It makes 
>> migration less reliable I think, because it hides what dependencies a module 
>> really has.
>> 
> I do see one issue with javac in that it is granting implicit readability to 
> explicit modules too, that seems to be a bug because such code will fail at 
> runtime.
> 
> -Alan
> 

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