automatic modules leaking types when using addmods

Paul Bakker paul.bakker.nl at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 06:35:17 UTC 2016


That doesn't seem to be the case, I can run successfully, as long as I have the right -addmods.
I've pushed my example here if you want to take a further look at it: https://github.com/paulbakker/automaticmodules-example <https://github.com/paulbakker/automaticmodules-example>

Paul


> On 25 Apr 2016, at 08:29, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 24/04/2016 21:00, Paul Bakker wrote:
>> So when modules B, C and D are automatic modules and named module A depends on B, A also gets implicit readability to C and D?
>> What is the reasoning behind this automatic implicit readability? It makes migration less reliable I think, because it hides what dependencies a module really has.
>> 
> I do see one issue with javac in that it is granting implicit readability to explicit modules too, that seems to be a bug because such code will fail at runtime.
> 
> -Alan
> 



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