on the white board

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2012/2/16 9:33 -0800, david.lloyd at redhat.com:
> On 02/14/2012 08:45 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> On 15/02/2012 5:31 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>> jdk.base
>>> exports java.util;
>>> exports java.util.PropertyChangeListener as
>>> java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
>> 
>> I hadn't seen a spec for schizophrenic types ;-) How do these work and
>> why are they needed?
> 
> I too am interested in an explanation of what this is.

A few of us were having an informal conversation about whether it'd be
worth having a way to declare that one class is an alias for another, as
a way to allow for existing APIs to be refactored without breaking old
code.  It turns out to get very complicated very quickly, so I doubt
we'll pursue anything like this in the near future.

- Mark