Feedback and comments on ARM proposal

[Jeremy Manson]

Does it matter that java.lang.auto wouldn't be auto-imported?

Jeremy

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Tim Peierls <tim at peierls.net> wrote:
> How about using a special package -- java.lang.auto, say -- with initially
> only one or two interfaces -- AutoCloseable and AutoDisposable, say -- and
> word the ARM proposal so that only subtypes of interfaces with a single,
> parameterless method that are declared in this special package are allowed
> in the ARM try-initialization?
>
> The idea here is to remove the decision about which clean-up methods to
> support from the current proposal and make it a library design issue.
>
> --tim
>
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