What is a language construct? (was Re: Comment on state of Project Jigsaw)

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com>wrote:

> I am still curious to know how Neal would integrate statements or
> declarations into the Java language that determine the visibility of types
> ("observability", in JLS terms) for code within the scope of the statements
> or declarations.
>

I recommend having the module system define a new form of accessibility,
not "observability".  The JLS has many examples of language-defined
accessibility.