PRE-PROPOSAL: Source and Encoding keyword

[Mark Mahieu]

Alex Buckley's slides on the modules JSR (
http://blogs.sun.com/abuckley/resource/Devoxx2008-ModularityInJava.pdf) show
examples of specifying a required module version, including things like
"java.core @ 1.7".  Presumably things like java.lang and javax.lang.model
will sit somewhere in this versioned module system, so wouldn't that be a
more suitable way to approach this?
I mean, why add yet another place to specify the version?

Mark


2009/3/16 Reinier Zwitserloot <reinier at zwitserloot.com>
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> As I've mentioned at least twice on coin-dev already, the JLS only
> needs to specify how the 'source' keyword sets the 'source' property
> of the CompilationUnit that contains the source keyword. As far as the
> JLS is concerned, this is a string value that has no further meaning.
> It's a bit like a comment in this sense. To be crystal clear: ** The
> JLS will NOT specify what is supposed to happen when you write "source
> 1.1;" in a JLSv3 view of the source file! **
>