Re: RFR (L) 8037210: Get rid of char-based descriptions 'J' of basic types

2014-04-03 Thread John Rose
On Apr 3, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote: > Of course they are popular because these are the type names. There is no > type L; it’s an object. I don’t understand why we have to use different > names just because they are used in other namespaces. This is not a C define. They s

Re: RFR (L) 8037210: Get rid of char-based descriptions 'J' of basic types

2014-04-03 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Mar 26, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote: > Here's a version with the new naming scheme: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/8037210/webrev.03.naming > > I like existing naming scheme and OBJECT/VOID/LONG/etc names are quite > popular(e.g. Wrapper & ASM (Opcodes) use them). Of c