EG meeting, 2021-11-17

[Jesper Steen Møller]

Hi Srikanth,

I suppose this meeting will decide some of the work to be done?

-Jesper

> On 17 Nov 2021, at 16.40, Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> EG Zoom meeting today at 5pm UTC (9am PDT, 12pm EDT).
> 
> Lots of traffic this time, we can have follow up discussions wherever there's interest. Potential topics:
> 
> "Consolidating the user model": followup discussions homed in on how we model primitive values—whether they're reference-less objects or some other "value" entity, and how they interact with reference types
> 
> "Equality operator for identityless classes": Kevin is concerned that the new == operator is an attractive nuisance, because it's sometimes, but not always, equivalent to 'equals'
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> "identityless objects and the type hierarchy": discussed how the IdentityObject/PrimitiveObject interfaces are used in the "Consolidating the user model" world
> 
> "Consequences of null for flattenable representations": John described strategies for encoding nulls where object references are flattened
>