ARM syntax and new keywords

Joseph D. Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Fri Nov 27 05:52:48 PST 2009


David Goodenough wrote:
> On Thursday 26 November 2009, Joshua Bloch wrote:
>   
>> Neal,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Now that jdk7 will include a syntax for using names that are otherwise
>>> keywords (the syntax is #"name"), the backward-compatibility breakage 
>>>       
> of
>   
>>> adding a new keyword is much less severe.
>>>       
>> Let's not jump the gun!  Sun's recently announced closures effort has
>>  barely gotten underway, and no syntax has been chosen. Mark made it 
>>     
> clear
>   
>>  that syntax he presented at Devoxx was a hastily constructed straw man.
>>
>>     Happy Thanksgiving,
>>
>>     Josh
>>
>>     
> It will be interesting to see how they go about doing that choosing.  Will it
> be a Coin like process, or are Sun going into a closed room and then produce
> a result on their own?
>
>   

Quoting from Mark Reinhold initial blog entry about closures 
(http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/closures):

> Sun will initiate the design and implementation of a simple closures 
> feature, as outlined above, and add it to JDK 7 
> <http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7> so as to enable broad 
> experimentation. If all goes well then we’ll later submit a 
> language-change JSR which would, in turn, be proposed as a component 
> of the eventual Java SE 7 JSR.
>
> Revising a programming language that’s in active use by millions of 
> developers is no small task. Sun neither can nor should do it alone, 
> so I hereby invite everyone who participated in the earlier closures 
> conversations—as well as anyone else with an informed opinion—to join us.
>

-Joe



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