Pending Character-related work - Character-warnings

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Wed Jun 30 17:50:16 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:22, Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 29.06.2010 02:29, schrieb Martin Buchholz:

>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> I think, there should be a note about this in the sources of those classes.

Such a note is likely to become obsolete soon.

> Maybe it's possible to have 2 versions, one for the bootstrap + another for
> the final compilation.

It's not a crime to implement language FOO(N) in language FOO(N-1).

Martin



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