Update on Coin futures from JavaOne

[Joe Darcy]

Hi David,

On 11/10/2011 5:57 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On 11/11/2011 8:08 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> JEPs now filed for
>>
>> Access to Parameter Names at Runtime
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/118
>
> Just wondering if compiler-dev is really the right mailing list on 
> which to discuss a core-reflection update? The compiler has to be 
> updated to support this but really it isn't about the compiler. This 
> extends from the JVMS through to the VM, with core-libs in between. 
> Maybe jdk8-dev would be better?
>

There are certainly aspects of this request that span the traditional 
mailing list topic boundaries; I'm sure the eventual review requests and 
discussions will span more than one list!

-Joe