Re: Off topic: named parameters

2015-05-20 Thread dalibor topic
On 14.05.2015 23:53, Tom Eugelink wrote: But I did expect someone to respond on the handing in of the JEP, mainly based on quotes like this: "/We use the current JEP Process to collect, review, sort, and evaluate proposals for enhancements to the JDK. The ongoing result of this process is the JDK

Re: Off topic: named parameters

2015-05-14 Thread Tom Eugelink
Sorry it took me a while to respond, I had a talk to prepare for. On 28-4-2015 08:22, Mario Torre wrote: On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 09:52 +0200, Tom Eugelink wrote: Totally off topic, I apologise, but the subscribers to this list are the type of people who may have the experience I seek. I've been

Re: Off topic: named parameters

2015-04-27 Thread Mario Torre
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 09:52 +0200, Tom Eugelink wrote: > Totally off topic, I apologise, but the subscribers to this list are the type > of people who may have the experience I seek. > > I've been trying to pitch the concept of named parameters for Java 9, but > somehow my JEP is never picked up

Re: Off topic: named parameters

2015-04-21 Thread Mike Hearn
I don't know about JEP submission process, but you'd first have to solve the problem that when Java added serialization of parameter names to class files in Java 8, the OpenJDK devs explicitly decided *not* to expose them for the JDK itself, on the grounds that they didn't want parameter names to b

Off topic: named parameters

2015-04-21 Thread Tom Eugelink
Totally off topic, I apologise, but the subscribers to this list are the type of people who may have the experience I seek. I've been trying to pitch the concept of named parameters for Java 9, but somehow my JEP is never picked up. I emailed it in twice. Has anyone ever successfully handed in