RFR (M) : JDK-8004561 : Addition Functional Interfaces for Lambda Libraries

[Remi Forax]

On 02/19/2013 07:40 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 07:14 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> On 02/19/2013 03:08 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> On 19/02/2013 14:39, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>> Oh, please god no! I find the way the buffer classes are generated a
>>>> real pain. Yes, it is good for maintaining consistency across similar
>>>> versions, but I don't see that as a good justification to introduce
>>>> this complexity. I was secretly hoping that nio Buffer generation
>>>> would go away in jdk8.
>>> I assume the "pain" with the generated buffer classes is in the IDE so
>>> you need to remember to include the gensrc tree in the project.
>> Right, but this assumes you to have a build. They also don't play well
>> with tools that index the source, like opengrok.
>>
>>
>
> As an aside, a code generation technique that should play better with 
> tooling would to be use an annotation processor to generate the code 
> from within the context of the compiler/IDE. As a general-purpose 
> meta-programming system, annotation processing doesn't have to be tied 
> to annotations.

hence the name :)

>
> -Joe

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