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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

From	Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
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Date	2011-02-05 04:47 +0100
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:32:56 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 04-02-2011 22:26, Ken Wesson wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:37:21 -0800, markspace wrote:
>>> On 2/4/2011 1:25 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>>>> Yeah. But that's not quite the same thing, is it? What with OOP and
>>>> all.
>>>
>>> Fair enough.
>>>
>>> Since it's not possible to add new methods to an interface without
>>> breaking all existing subclasses, I have to assume that is why
>>> CharSequence was never modified.
>>>
>>> The Lambda project for Java has been working on closures.  They've
>>> also proposed extension methods/defender methods to allow Java
>>> interfaces to be modified.  I think the best chance of getting
>>> CharSequence modified would be through that mechanism when it becomes
>>> available.
>>
>> So, sometime around the establishment of our first Mars colony. Gotcha.
>> :)
> 
> Java 8 with lambda are planned for 2012.

Teehee. It's already 2011 and Java 7 still hasn't been released. The time 
since Java 6 is getting up to several years already. It's more likely 
we'll have half a dozen new Star Wars movies by the end of 2012 than Java 
8.

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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net.invalid> - 2011-02-04 22:25 +0100
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? markspace <nospam@nowhere.com> - 2011-02-04 16:37 -0800
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 04:26 +0100
      Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 04:47 +0100
      Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 22:32 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 20:06 -0500

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