Feedback and comments on ARM proposal

[Joshua Bloch]

Jeremy,
I don't think so; it would be used (almost) exclusively by the classes that
implement its interface(s).

          Josh

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Manson <jeremy.manson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Does it matter that java.lang.auto wouldn't be auto-imported?
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Tim Peierls <tim at peierls.net> 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
> >
> >
>
>