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Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound.

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On 8/18/2011 8:14 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Joshua Cranmer<Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>  wrote:
>> On 8/17/2011 10:04 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>>> I believe such a change would be source-compatible, but might require
>>> some severe changes at the bytecode/class-file-format level, to allow
>>> to specify such a lower bound in a type signature. Such a change should
>>> be possible in a way, that old class-files can still be used. e.g.:
>>>    get9th:(]10I)I    (currently without bounds:  get9th:([I)I )
>> You could do it by adding a few new annotations,
>
> I must admit, that I've so far mostly ignored Annotations for my
> tasks. When you write "adding a few annotations", do you just mean
> adding certain standard annotations to the respective places, or did
> you mean defining a custom Annotation and write some code for a
> compiler-plugin that would then deal with one's new Annotations?

I was actually referring to class file annotations, not Java annotations.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-17 15:04 +0000
  Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-08-17 12:34 -0500
    Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 13:14 +0000
      Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-08-18 10:30 -0500
        Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 18:12 +0000
          Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-08-18 20:59 -0500
  Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-17 20:42 +0200
    Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 21:44 +0000
      Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-19 13:24 +0200
        Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-20 17:20 +0000
  Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-17 22:11 -0700
    Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 23:17 -0700
      Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 10:41 +0000
        Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-18 06:34 -0700
          Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 18:08 +0000
            Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-18 17:53 -0700
              Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-20 17:31 +0000
                Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 10:50 -0700
                Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-21 10:47 +0200
          Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Michal Kleczek <kleku@poczta.onet.pl> - 2011-08-21 20:27 +0200

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