Pending Character-related work - Character-warnings

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 30.06.2010 19:50, schrieb Martin Buchholz:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:22, Ulf Zibis<Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de>  wrote:
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>> Am 29.06.2010 02:29, schrieb Martin Buchholz:
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>>> I tried to do that, but Character.java is one of those classes
>>> that needs to be compilable by the bootstrap JDK,
>>> so this change ist leider nicht moeglich.
>>>
>>>
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>> I think, there should be a note about this in the sources of those classes.
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> Such a note is likely to become obsolete soon.
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How do you mean that? Will the build procedure change soon. Then it 
would be anyway appropriate to update to new "style".

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>> Maybe it's possible to have 2 versions, one for the bootstrap + another for
>> the final compilation.
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> It's not a crime to implement language FOO(N) in language FOO(N-1).
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... but a bad example for programmers, especially beginners, in case 
they look through the sources to catch some ideas.

-Ulf