JDK9 features

[Eric Pederson]

I've been noticing the Java 9 ES6 features tweeted by @sundararajan_a
<https://twitter.com/sundararajan_a>.  Looks awesome!  Will there be full
ES6 support in Java 9?

There are a couple of other things we would love to see in the updated
Nashorn:

1. We've been using the same hack that you recommended to Tim Fox for
loading functions without changing the global namespace - the Avatar/js
CommonJS/require hack.  It would be great if this was supported natively in
Nashorn via a new loadXXX().

2. It would be also be great to have the inverse of asJSONCompatible for a)
JSObjects returned by Java code and b) objects from other scopes.  Our name
for ScriptObjectMirrors in Javascript code is "mutant objects": they look
like regular JS objects but they are missing most of their DNA, and you
don't realize until you get an exception or silent failure somewhere down
the call chain where it's difficult to figure out why :)

Anyway, the upcoming stuff looks great!

Thanks,

-- Eric