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[Jack Moxley]

I have not seen any rudeness can we try and keep the emotions under wraps rather than using paranoid perceptions of inter-corporate rivalry to dismiss out of hand a fairly valid point?

On 13 Jun 2011, at 23:01, Paulo Silveira - Caelum <paulo.silveira at caelum.com.br> wrote:

> 2011/6/9 Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com>:
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> and while erased function types may seem better than nothing now, so did
>>> erased generics way back when...
>>> 
>>> If we can have reified function types in the
>>> future, then this will be an obvious place to backfill this association.
>>> 
>> 
>> And if we can't, then we'll regret not doing it today.
> 
> We will regret if they try to reify generics in JSR 335. It probably
> would take a lot of time and end up splitting Java (again) in Java 8
> and 9, and having lambda only in Java 9+.
> 
> The guys  here are doing an incredible work to have lambda not
> delayed, and I really do not understand why Neal Gafter keeps being so
> rude on the list. It is not the first time.
> 
> This is a top-notch tech list, where we can lear a lot from the spec
> leaders and experts, which are sharing everything they can. It is a
> pity to have Google-Oracle tensions around.
> 
> Paulo
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