Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer From: Andreas Leitgeb Subject: Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. References: <6k7p47d9442mcld6j2p5l4hekodard6oss@4ax.com> <4c11ff9c-3c83-45cc-85a7-9b0c05de17ff@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: avl@logic.at User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-111 (Linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 2011 17:31:56 GMT Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at X-Trace: 1313861516 tunews.univie.ac.at 71616 128.130.175.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tuwien.ac.at Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7269 Roedy Green wrote: > On 18 Aug 2011 18:08:47 GMT, 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.