Kenneth Russell wrote:
> I would be concerned about the semantic change of
> pass-by-value and what that would mean for the easy readability and
> understanding of Java source code
I would point to the CLR as a successful example here. Value types and
references types mingle fairly painlessly i
Miles Sabin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ben Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The example case I have in mind is an interaction between a Java
>> process and a 3D graphics driver. Eg a Java process would be
>> writing/updating triangle data in the buffer, and the graphics d
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ben Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The example case I have in mind is an interaction between a Java
> process and a 3D graphics driver. Eg a Java process would be
> writing/updating triangle data in the buffer, and the graphics driver
> rendering it. (I admi
It's possible to do what you want with the existing NIO Buffer classes
and a helper tool. GlueGen (http://gluegen.dev.java.net/) generates Java
classes to access C data structures. These accessor classes wrap
ByteBuffers and provide setter / getter methods for accessing the fields
of the struct
Miles Sabin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Ben Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Also, in terms of what it doesn't do:
>>
>> 1. Hard to see any way to extend to interpret a ByteBuffer region as an
>> array of some value type, a feature ultimately needed for bulk interop
>> wit
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Ben Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, in terms of what it doesn't do:
>
> 1. Hard to see any way to extend to interpret a ByteBuffer region as an
> array of some value type, a feature ultimately needed for bulk interop
> with external IO/processes, I feel
Miles Sabin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Ben Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Ive written up a post outlining my case for value type support:
>> http://benhutchison.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/the-jvm-needs-value-types/
>>
>
> Surely, in that very article you describe the
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Ben Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ive written up a post outlining my case for value type support:
> http://benhutchison.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/the-jvm-needs-value-types/
Surely, in that very article you describe the exact encoding that's
needed to get al
