Suggestions for Java Generics Semantics in Java Version 7.0 _ Resurrected

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Ismael Juma <mlists at juma.me.uk> wrote:

>  Certainly not trivial, but if someone wanted to work on that, it would
> be a good idea to look at projects that have at least created a
> prototype, e.g.:
>
> http://www.cs.rice.edu/~javaplt/nextgen/<http://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Ejavaplt/nextgen/>
>

NextGen produces code that is binary-incompatible with existing java
compilers.  It also does not support separate compilation; generic libraries
and their clients must be compiled together.  But I agree that, as a
starting point, it is much better than nothing.