Compiling with automatic modules

Jochen Theodorou blackdrag at gmx.org
Fri May 26 11:12:43 UTC 2017


On 26.05.2017 01:04, Alex Buckley wrote:
[...]
> The semantics of an observed JAR without module-info.class are specified
> as part of JPMS resolution, and JLS 7.3 explicitly defers to that, so I
> believe it is clear how a compiler must behave when a modular
> compilation unit 'requires' a module that turns out to be automatic. (Of
> course a big part of the migration story is that the requirer is unaware
> of whether the requiree is automatic or explicit.)

Isn't the consequence that I can write a compiler which does only allow 
named modules?

bye Jochen


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