Anonymity and observability of unnamed classes (JEP 445)

[Brian Goetz]

I think you may be misunderstanding the use of “dialect” here.  By “dialect” we don’t mean that the language is given semantics it didn’t have before; every new language feature does this.  By dialect we mean a set of “beginners semantics” for these new compilation units that would be *different* from the same code in a full program.  This would require students to “unlearn” as they scale up, rather than merely “zoom out”.  

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> On May 7, 2023, at 3:42 PM, Attila Kelemen <attila.kelemen85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. máj. 7.,
> V, 21:36):
>> 
>> Then perhaps you can unpack this claim:
>> 
>>> but implicit static
>> 
> 
> I'm honestly puzzled on how you came to the conclusion that this means
> that I think main is implicitly static (maybe the actual correct way
> to phrase it would have been " implicit static to be a new dialect"
> rather than " implicit static is a new dialect", but still I'm not a
> native english speaker, please give me a break). I was talking about
> my perceived inconsistency of the reasoning of the JEP. That is, that
> it does not consider itself a new dialect, but it says that implicit
> static would be a new dialect.