From joe.darcy at oracle.com Fri Jan 16 01:49:25 2015 From: joe.darcy at oracle.com (Joseph D. Darcy) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:49:25 -0800 Subject: Milling Project Coin; mailing list being retired In-Reply-To: <538CB59E.3080606@oracle.com> References: <538CB59E.3080606@oracle.com> Message-ID: <54B86E25.6030303@oracle.com> PS Two of the three adjustments to Project Coin features are now in JDK 9 builds: allowing @SafeVarargs on private methods and allowing try-with-resources statement to reuse final / effectively final resource variables instead of always declaring a new resource [1]. Please give the new features a try with your own code and report any issues to compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net. Cheers, -Joe [1] https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/concise_twr_jdk9 On 6/2/2014 10:34 AM, Joe Darcy wrote: > Hello, > > A quick note on Project Coin: I've submitted a JEP to round off a few > rough edges present in the original JDK 7 era language features: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2014-May/008823.html > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042880 > > These adjustments may (or may not) be part of JDK 9. > > On other matters, since Project Coin shipped with JDK 7 several years > ago, I've made this list moderated as a prelude to the list being more > formally archived, so if not the last, this message will be one of the > last messages to this list. > > Thanks for all the good discussions, > > -Joe