Feedback and comments on ARM proposal

[Mark Mahieu]

Or perhaps a marker interface rather than a special package?  That  
might be more consistent with existing 'special behaviour' (eg.  
Serializable).

I definitely like the idea of leaving it to the individual libraries  
to decide.

Mark


On 20 Mar 2009, at 21:08, Tim Peierls wrote:

> How about using a special package -- java.lang.auto, say -- with  
> initially
> only one or two interfaces -- AutoCloseable and AutoDisposable, say  
> -- and
> word the ARM proposal so that only subtypes of interfaces with a  
> single,
> parameterless method that are declared in this special package are  
> allowed
> in the ARM try-initialization?
>
> The idea here is to remove the decision about which clean-up  
> methods to
> support from the current proposal and make it a library design issue.
>
> --tim
>