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[Howard Lovatt]

On Wed Mar 31 12:19:10 PDT 2010, Alex Buckley wrote:
>On 3/30/2010 11:28 PM, Gernot Neppert wrote:
>> Hmm, stating that discussions on a public mailing list are "somewhat
>> futile" is, with due respect, somewhat futile!
>
>What's futile is not the discussion per se, but the expectation
>doubtless held by some members of this mailing list that the discussion
>will be reviewed by EG members and affect their thinking. No-one can
>guarantee that EG members will do so. Some JCP members will not look at
>any OpenJDK project in any way under any circumstances. The draft Lambda
>spec will most likely be the sole starting point for EG discussions.
>Options explored on the Lambda list but not incorporated into the draft
>spec may have to be independently discovered by EG members.

I would have thought that participation in a discussion group *like*
this, or *other* contributions, would be *almost* a requirement for an
EG member. After all, why should the other EG members have to educate
someone who hasn't even availed themselves of readily available
discussions. You can hardly claim to be an "expert" and yet "ignorant"
of discussions about the topic at the same time :)

[snip]

 -- Howard.

PS I carefully said *almost* above since people outside mainstream
Java might bring an interesting alternative perspective. However you
would have thought such people would be the exception, not the rule.