caution: bleeding-edge ahead!
Maurizio Cimadamore
maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Tue Jan 13 00:21:01 UTC 2015
On 12/01/15 23:32, Ali Ebrahimi wrote:
> Why we can not adapt C++'s #if, #elif, #else, and #endif Directives
> for java with java-like syntax. You can see that in hotspot code the
> similar problems (OS depends-code) perfectly to be solved by Directives.
>
> So we can have support for multiple any type vars and nested layers,
> and compiler can do flow analysis for nested layers (where clauses or
> what ever you want).
Hi Ali,
I agree that, to some extent, the end goal of layers is to effectively
enable some form of 'optional' membership/overriding which could also be
thought of in terms of classic C++-style macros around method
declarations/blocks etc. In fact, I think that, apart from partial
abstractness, what's implemented right now is more or less functionally
equivalent to layers (modulo bugs, of course). That said, I think we are
in the search of something that would sit better with the Java
programming model; granted, #ifdefs and friends will take you there, but
I think it will also be overly powerful - and prone to be abused (and
perhaps, as some of you have noted in this mailing list, layers has that
problem); what if there was a nice little construct that, with minimal
footprint could take you all the way there - meaning that you could
retrofit the libraries you care about, w/o really adding a new powerful
hammer to the language? I think that 'something' is the sort of magic we
are after here.
Maurizio
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