JEP: Extending generics to support primitive type arguments

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Brian,

I'll echo Paul and add "Good Luck" :-). My only real comment is that I'm
not sure the question of: "Is there any impact / change / removal required
for the existing autoboxing/unboxing functionality"?

Cheers,
Martijn


On 26 June 2014 19:20, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:

> Brian, what a puzzler! This might be the most complex proposed feature yet.
> It will be a treat to see how others solve the problem.
>
> Here is my first comment...
> Given T=int, I would like to see the JVM magically substitute in an
> "object" that's backed by the primitive. I use "object" in quotes because I
> am not referring to something that's instantiated per primitive value --
> but some sort of synthetic singleton where all int primitives point to the
> same one. Since there is no other state in this "object" but the value
> itself, this seems okay. The primitive value is actually the "this" pointer
> in the virtual method call.
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've submitted the following JEP for extending generics to support
> > primitive type arguments:
> >
> >   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046267
> >
> > Comments welcome!
> >
> >
>