Function types versus arrays

[Joshua Bloch]

I'm not sure why you folks are worrying so much about implementation.  At
this point, I believe we should be searching for the best spec.  Then we can
worry about implementation.  If we can't implement our desired spec, then we
can talk about how to weaken it.

         Josh

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:

> Howard-
>
> Can you please show the implementation of
>
> _Array_From_void_throws_ChangedCharSetException_SAXParseException_UnkownHostException__To_void_throws_AWTException_IOException_SAXException.instance?
>
> Cheers,
> Neal
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at iee.org>
> wrote:
> > (the above translation is an extension of sections 5.2.2, 5.4, and 4.4)
> and:
> >
> >>   #void()(throws IOException, AWTException, SAXException)[] array2 =
> array1;
> >
> > becomes:
> >
> > _Callable_void_throws_AWTException_IOException_SAXException[] array2 =
> >
> _Array_From_void_throws_ChangedCharSetException_SAXParseException_UnkownHostException__To_void_throws_AWTException_IOException_SAXException.instance(
> > array1 );
>
>