State of the Values

[Brian Goetz]

We’ve asked that question ourselves.  Its a definite “maybe”.  

Answering such questions is a long ways off; our primary focus for the time being is the VM-level semantics; the language semantics come later, and later still “syntaxy” issues like this.  

On May 4, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at CoSoCo.de> wrote:

> I think, this is a great proposal.
> 
> > Value/primitive convergence. Can we integrate primitives into the values family?
> > __ByValue class int { ... }? Can we get to a world where primitives are just predefined value types?
> 
> Does that mean that we could invoke e.g. methods of class Integer on primitive int type?
>    int a = 5;
>    String aAsString = a.toString();
>    String seven = 7.toString();
> 
> That I would like very much!
> 
> -Ulf
> 
> 
> Am 04.05.2014 04:07, schrieb Paul Benedict:
>> For anyone interested, here's a new article on perhaps forthcoming value
>> types:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
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