JSR-292: Why not java.lang.dyn?

[Rémi Forax]

Le 04/10/2009 11:39, Christian Thalinger a écrit :
> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 23:43 -0500, Paul Benedict wrote:
>    
>> I've always found it a bit perplexing that java.lang was never chosen
>> for the parent package of the Dynamic API. Why is that? Dynamic types
>> are now "part of the language" as proven by spec itself and exotic
>> identifiers. Will this be reconsidered?
>>      
> [I'm forwarding this question to mlvm-dev.]
>
> I think John Rose or another member of the EG should have an answer to
> this.
>
> -- Christian
>
>    

java.lang => Java the language (not the platform)

Exotic identifiers and MethodHandle.invoke calling rules in Java (the 
language)
are not part of the JSR292 spec.
JSR 292 => method handle API for any (dynamic?) language

So why java.dyn API should be a 'part' of java.lang ?

Rémi