JEPs proposed to target JDK 9

[Mario Torre]

I agree with David, _ should remain.

Cheers,
Mario

2014-10-24 17:06 GMT+02:00 David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com>:
> On 10/23/2014 05:15 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>
>> For your consideration: The following JEPs have been placed into the
>> "Proposed to Target" state by their respective owners after discussion
>> and review.
>>
>>    158: Unified JVM Logging
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/158
>>    211: Elide Deprecation Warnings on Import Statements
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/211
>>    212: Resolve Lint and Doclint Warnings
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/212
>>    213: Milling Project Coin
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/213
>>    214: Remove GC Combinations Deprecated in JDK 8
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/214
>>    216: Process Import Statements Correctly
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/216
>>
>> Feedback is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such
>> objections are raised in one week's time (i.e., by 2014/10/30 23:00 UTC),
>> or if they're raised and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP
>> 2.0 process proposal [1] I'll target these JEPs to JDK 9.
>
>
> I still object to removing _ (one of only two legal single-symbol
> identifiers in Java) as an identifier.  I believe that if a special
> identifier is desired, a new, previously unused character should be used
> instead, such as #.  This has the advantage of not breaking existing
> frameworks (including two of my own), as well as being visually distinct.
>
> I do not believe that referencing existing non-Java languages is a valid
> reason for doing this.  Yes it might improve initial recognition ever so
> slightly.  But 5 years down the line, if you choose # instead, it will be
> just as clear (if not more so) as to what it means (since you won't have the
> baggage of other languages' interpretations of that symbol to confuse
> matters; as an example, we still see users come into ##java IRC expecting
> generics<> to work like C++ templates because they look similar).
>
> The rest of the changes look great - much needed improvements.
> --
> - DML



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