- Original Message -
> From: "Brian Goetz"
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> What I'm trying to do here is decomplect flattening from nullity. Right
> now, we have an unfortunate interaction which both makes certain
> combinations impossible, and makes the user model harder to reason about.
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Just so we don't lose this history, a reminder that back when we settled on the 3
buckets, we viewed it as a useful simplification from a more general approach with lots
of "knobs". Instead of asking developers to think about 3-4 mostly-orthogonal
properties and set them all appropriately,
About six months ago we started working on flattening references in
calling conventions in the Valhalla repos. We use the Preload attribute
to force preloading of classes that are known to be (or expected to be)
value classes, but which are referenced only via L descriptors, so that
at the
