EG Zoom meeting tomorrow at 5pm UTC (9am PDT, 12pm EDT). Some mail discussions we can follow up on:
"VM model and aconst_init": we had a side conversation about potentially requiring explicit conversions from Q to L "Interface pollution and JVM invariants": Dan pointed out that the interfaces IdentityObject and ValueObject are not strongly enforced at runtime, because the verifier doesn't check interface types "SoV-3: constructor questions": Dan asked about validation for <init> and <new> methods. Answer: JVM doesn't care about <init> methods in abstract classes, the rules about <new> methods still uncertain. "SoV-2: weak references": Dan raised concerns about the weak reference strategy described in SoV. "The interfaces IdentityObject and ValueObject must die !": Self-explanatory :-). We retraced how we got here and talked about alternatives. "JEP update: Classes for the Basic Primitives": I revised JEP 402 to catch up to changes to the model elsewhere "Terminology bikeshedding summary": I listed areas where we've had some concern about the terminology currently being used --- To provide some structure, I think we can put the topics in three categories: Known unfinished issues: - Factory method interpretation/restrictions - WeakReference handling Revisiting/questioning the current design: - Explicit Q->L conversions - IdentityObject and ValueObject interfaces - Terminology Probably resolved, but reviewing: - Abstract supers and construction signals/mechanisms - Declarations for basic primitives
