hg: valhalla/valhalla/langtools: Add some functional juice to javac code

John Rose john.r.rose at oracle.com
Tue Aug 12 20:51:02 UTC 2014


On Aug 12, 2014, at 1:40 PM, David Chase <david.r.chase at oracle.com> wrote:

> If we use them to model a parameter list (maybe not for Java) tuple
> subtyping can indeed mask errors

FWIW, me too; that's my basic objection to tuple length polymorphism.  It forces varargs behavior everywhere you use tuples.  Feels like a WrongTheoryError.

Maurizio, you should have called them "Adjuncts" or something, to avoid having everybody pile on about tuple lore.  :-)

— John


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