clarity needed for the non-sealed keyword

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Thu Oct 8 19:39:51 UTC 2020


> But why does the keyword contain a “-”?  Why wasn't “nonsealed” good
> enough?

The rationale for the creation of hyphenated keywords is well 
documented.  See, for example:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/2019-January/000945.html

and

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8223002




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