RFR 9: 8165641 : Deprecate Object.finalize

[Andrew Dinn]

On 12/03/17 09:55, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Oh, absolutely, I know about that.  I was just wondering why now, and
> is this something you just came up with, and are we going to have the
> compatibility discussion?

Perhaps now is the chosen moment (and a good choice at that, I say)
because deprecation in release N is necessary to allow removal or
modification of semantics in release N+k, k >= 1. So, rather N == 10
than N == 9 (n.b. in this case, I strongly suspect that inequality on k
will not actually encompass the equals case).

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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