It's not too late for access control

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Wed Jul 13 21:17:23 UTC 2016


2016/7/11 7:21:46 -0700, david.lloyd at redhat.com:
> ...
> 
> I propose, once again, that rather than changing the meaning of "public" 
> to something unintuitive (and indeed counter to the definition of the 
> actual word), we instead allow the selective extension of 
> package-private.  ...

FYI, to jigsaw-dev readers: This approach was discussed on the JPMS EG
list late last year.  Here are links to the relevant messages:

  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2015-November/000194.html
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2015-December/000215.html
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2015-December/000219.html
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2015-December/000222.html
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2015-December/000223.html
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2015-December/000227.html
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2015-December/000228.html

- Mark


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