Update on JSR 334 Expert Group activities

[Joe Darcy]

And the resources that need managing in that situation will not be 
AutoCloseable ones!

-Joe

Joshua Bloch wrote:
> Joe,
>
>
> Well, after the impending EMP destroys all digital devices, perhaps 
> there will be a resurgence of Morse Code.  But on the other hand, 
> there won't be any CPUs to take advantage of our fine specifications.
>
>      Josh
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com 
> <mailto:joe.darcy at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/25/2011 8:52 PM, Cay Horstmann wrote:
>     >> On 25/01/2011 9:22 p.m., Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
>     >> One good reason to disallow multiple underscores is to keep
>     multiple
>     >> underscores available for future language expansion. Presumably
>     JDK7 isn't
>     >> the last java release to have new language features. I admit I
>     can't think
>     >> of anything that would be best served by multiple underscores,
>     but who knows
>     >> what java needs 5 years from now?
>     > Morse code literals, ._.. .. _._ . _ .... .. ...
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     >
>     > _._. ._ _.__
>
>     ..-. .-- .. .--, given that the FCC has dropped the Morse code
>     requirement to obtain an amateur radio license in the US [1], I don't
>     see a growing need for Morse code literals five years hence!
>
>     -Joe
>
>     [1]
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_licensing_in_the_United_States#Technician:_the_first_license_without_Morse_code
>
>
>