Too terse and too alien?

[Stephen Colebourne]

Thanks for the clarification about the role of the current code wrt semantics.

This is probably the right approach as it is also allowing early
feedback on the syntax. My view is that the syntax is taking a real
bashing out there, and some tuning is definitely needed.

I've already given my feedback on the semantics more than once.
However, it would be useful if Oracle wants semantic feedback to guide
the process by indicating any specific areas or questions that you
want evaluated.

Stephen


On 1 June 2010 11:05, Maurizio Cimadamore
<maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> Back to lambda, the decision to support the strawman syntax was mainly a
> pragmatic one; that syntax has the advantage of being an LL(1) grammar,
> easy to parse, very good for rapid prototyping; at this stage, where (as
> you can see from other messages in this mailing list) many 'deep'
> details still need to be flushed out, we decided to stick with a minimal
> syntax we all agree (sorta) upon. This could give everyone the
> opportunity of playing with the prototype a bit, finding out both flaws
> and merits.
>
> [1] - http://blogs.sun.com/gbracha/entry/developing_modules_for_development
>
> Maurizio
>
>