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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: multiple inheritance in Java
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:29:23 -0400
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On 07/02/2013 01:40 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 7/2/2013 1:17 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 07/02/2013 12:09 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>>      Okay.  It might have been clearer if you'd chosen names that
>>> weren't already taken -- although, one must admit, that's not easy
>>> to do with Java's ever-growing namespace bloat.  (Factoid: The HTML
>>> *index* for the 7.0 API occupies eighteen meg!)
>>>
>>
>> Java never throws anything away. I wonder about a compatibility layer.
>> rt.jar would contain all of the current stuff, rtc.jar the old.
>
>      Not sure what the separation would accomplish.  All the
> package names would remain unchanged, all the class and method
> and field names would remain unchanged, the JavaDoc would still
> have to describe them all, and the JVM would need to open one
> more file than it already does.

If someone wanted to expend the effort to do the pruning
the following would compile with the compatibility switch on
otherwise throw ClassNotFoundException.

Vector<String> v;
JList<String> l = new JList<String>(v);

I could download JDK9 or JDK9C, I guess only JDK9C compiler
would include the -compatibility switch.