Revisiting primitives in generics: This can *NOT* be delayed for later.

[Mark Thornton]

Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> I realized this rather troublesome problem of going with SotL and not
> considering primitives in generics:
>
> There's no way back from that.
>
> If ParallelArrays is released with the full contingent of 132 SAMs in Ops,
> then we'll not only be stuck with them forever in the traditional sense of
> not eliminating classes to preserve backwards compatibility, but there's
> also no practical way forward, either.
>   
Without a solution to the primitive problem I would expect 
ParallelArray's to be left out of JDK7 or at least the primitive forms 
to be omitted.

Mark