Automatic Resource Management, V.2

[Joshua Bloch]

Rémi,
Good question. We did it to eliminate the possibility of name clashes in
existing programs. JBoss actually uses the name AutoCloseable. Types in
java.lang are automatically imported, and putting AutoCloseable in
java.lang.auto avoids this issue. It doesn't make the construct any less
usable, as you don't have to mention AutoCloseable explicitly to use the
construct.

Josh

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

> Joshua Bloch a écrit :
>
>> Fellow Coiners,
>>
>> Thanks for all your feedback on the Automatic Resource Management
>> proposal.
>>  I have revised the proposal in light of these comments.  The new version
>> (V.2) can be seen at this URL:
>> http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv8ts74_3fs7483dp . It is included below
>> for
>> archival purposes.
>>
>>   Josh
>>
>>
> Hi josh,
> just a small question why AutoClosable is specified to be in java.lang.auto
> and not java.lang.
>
> regards,
> Rémi
>