[External] : Re: Consolidating the user model

[Kevin Bourrillion]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 9:36 AM Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:

I guess to rephrase this, I'll just say: yes, there are problems with
> int/Integer. But we shouldn't let that tail wag the dog when sorting out
> the language model. int/Integer is going to be a special case, no matter
> how we stack it. (On the other hand, we really like to look for analogies
> from int/Integer when sorting out the language model, and sometimes those
> are fruitful. But handle with care.)
>

Perfectly said, I think.

When someone says "so it's like int/Integer?" my hope of being able to
answer "yeah actually, that will serve well enough" is closely followed by
"we'd like to say yeah, but we *need* to ask you to think of it differently
now, but you'll understand why." You probably have that and I'm just
delayed in absorbing it.

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Kevin Bourrillion | Java Librarian | Google, Inc. | kevinb at google.com