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Re: JSR 401

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On 4/1/2021 11:31 AM, e.d.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 8:13:31 AM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> Has anyone else studied the working drafts of the forthcoming JSR
>> 401? It's an attempt to unify "primitives" and "objects" in a
>> future Java, making it possible to have a List<int> instead of
>> List<Integer>, or a Map<short,double> instead of Map<Short,Double>,
>> and so on. It would also allow arrays of generic types, like
>> JList<String>[], relieving an irritation that's nagged us since the
>> dawn of generics.
>> 
>> But there's a drawback: Although arrays of objects (even of
>> generic types) will work, arrays of primitives would no longer be
>> possible! That is, you could no longer create or use an int[], but
>> would need to use something like an ArrayList<int> instead. I'm not
>> intimate with the inner workings of the JVM and I fail to
>> understand some of the problems the working papers describe, but it
>> has something to do with the fact that an array knows the type of
>> its elements and a primitive doesn't actually have a "type" in the
>> sense of belonging to a class hierarchy.

> Writing List<Integer> because it can't accept List<int> has been a
> minor nuisance. Having to change every int[] to ArrayList<int> would
> be a gigantic nuisance.

What date is it today?

Arne

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JSR 401 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2021-04-01 08:13 -0400
  Re: JSR 401 Mostowski Collapse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2021-04-01 16:44 +0200
  Re: JSR 401 "e.d.pro...@gmail.com" <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2021-04-01 08:31 -0700
    Re: JSR 401 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2021-04-01 18:52 -0400
      Re: JSR 401 "e.d.pro...@gmail.com" <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2021-04-01 19:58 -0700
  Re: JSR 401 Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2021-04-02 15:36 +0200

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