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Re: JDK 1.7 new features

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On 7/29/2011 9:28 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> I was pleased to see some features is JDK 1.7 that I had been asking
> for since JDK 1.1.  I'm surprised at how little there is new in 1.7. I
> guess the recession made Oracle really pull in their horns. It is
> mostly just a little syntatic sugar in the compiler.
>
> binary literals.
> underscores in literals to make them easier to proofread
> string case labels
> catch can handle multiple Exceptions.
>
> I would think the biggest priority for 1.8 would be unifying arrays
> and generics. They should be compatible, even if it means giving up
> type erasure.

IIRC, there should be several new VM features now, namely the addition 
of the invokedynamic instruction and method-handles, as well as several 
new constant-pool entry types, ..., which were planned to be officially 
made available for the 1.7 release (unless something has changed, from 
what I read says they should be there).

they are mostly intended for aiding in the implementation of dynamic 
languages on the JVM.

I guess maybe by 1.8 there will be lambdas/closures.

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JDK 1.7 new features Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-29 09:28 -0700
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    Re: JDK 1.7 new features Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-07-30 23:57 +0300
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