Primitive specializations

[Brian Goetz]

We tried this already.  Indeed, we ran into issues with ambiguities of 
the sort you describe.

On 6/14/2013 3:51 PM, Paul Benedict wrote:
> I believe the problem with that kind of specialization is that it makes
> Java box the primitive types. The current scheme avoids that performance
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> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Jose <jgetino at telefonica.net> wrote:
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>> In the spirit of the primitive specializations of Iterator I wonder if it
>> would be possible to make LongConsumer being a specialization of
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>> On the other hand I would like to know if it can be expected that in future
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>> foo(LongConsumer c)         and        foo(Cosumer<Long>.c)
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