Feature complete?

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2015/12/1 7:22 -0800, vitalyd at gmail.com:
> ...
> 
> Well, people can get used to just about anything, doesn't mean it's
> necessarily the right way.  But fundamentally, I'd like to look at java
> source/types and be able to infer as much semantics as possible, this
> includes visibility.  With jigsaw, this is now blurred for public types.
> If modules are truly a first class citizen, they ought to have their own
> language-visible access modifier.  Let's put it this way -- green field
> scenario, no legacy code to worry about, is this still the right choice?

In a green-field scenario, with no legacy code to worry about, we
probaby wouldn't have packages, protected members, or even non-private
constructors -- and we definitely wouldn't have serialization.

That is not, however, the world that we live in.

- Mark