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On 11/12/2011 2:09 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Requiring a Java 7 java to execute Java 8 javac output is forward
> compatible not backward compatible.


Hmm, I guess I was thinking of "Java 8 is not backwards compatible with 
Java 7 JVM," although there may be subtleties to that term that I'm not 
understanding.


> And AFAIK then Java has never promised or intended being
> forward compatible.


My main goal was to point out to folks here who may try that snapshot 
that "it's not all there yet" so they didn't spend too much time 
spinning their wheels if they found something that didn't run.  Likely, 
it's the JDK that probably isn't 100% yet, not the coder.