Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: no more primitive data types in Java (JDK 10+). What do you think? Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:55:05 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <9vd85qFre3U1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 1kKwxJc81+GfOYjDOkzwLgVVzrbL0K2oq60YrleWYyPkgfpus= Cancel-Lock: sha1:hkZbMEzAfYNncrlRJq/FL9J7HT0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13690 On 04/20/2012 03:16 PM, Tsukino Usagi wrote: > On 4/20/2012 3:36 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >> Tsukino Usagi writes: >>> Is that what they mean, or do they mean they will just treat numbers >>> /like/ objects? I guess I need more information. In the absence of a >>> good reason, I don't believe such a change will ever actually make it >>> into Java. >> >> I suggest, you might learn some Smalltalk or at least Ruby. >> > > I can see myself learning smalltalk for the bragging rights, but there's > no need to bring ruby into this. Ruby has serious problems and I don't > understand why they don't just fix them. I don't know what "serious problems" you are talking about and this is probably not the place to discuss them either. But Stefan's hint was a good one in this context because MRI has a clean object model for the user with not too bad performance for primitive numbers. (see ref to Wikipedia article elsewhere in this thread) Kind regards robert