Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:47:11 +0200 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <9bbv0fF8b4U1@mid.individual.net> References: <6k7p47d9442mcld6j2p5l4hekodard6oss@4ax.com> <4c11ff9c-3c83-45cc-85a7-9b0c05de17ff@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <0a3f32f3-efab-436d-a008-4ee2ef21be1d@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vswXRiXhiDReB3WRNFYn9Qerov1buEzd+p1A1FMX80CjhrsBY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:S2/j2CRPn8i7RgjL89unlsMH4b8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <0a3f32f3-efab-436d-a008-4ee2ef21be1d@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7271 On 20.08.2011 19:50, Lew wrote: > Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >> Roedy Green wrote: >>> Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >>>> That should/could be compiler's job. >>> If you are the only person who has this problem, then it should >>> definitely not be the compiler's job. You can't put features in >>> languages unless 99% of programmers can understand them. That >>> rules out quite number of esoteric ideas. >> >> I entirely agree with you. However, if you didn't really read the >> first few lines of the original post, then you're probably just >> wasting your time if you read or answer the other posts of this >> thread. (You're of course free to do just that - namely waste your >> time - if you're in that mood :-) >> >> This thread is neither about a problem to be solved, nor about a >> serious proposal for Java - despite certain formulations (picked >> out of the context) may make it seem like it was. > > Discussions like this one are incredibly valuable for the evolution > of the Java language, and for computer languages in general. ... and probably also for the understanding of programming languages. Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/