Towards Minimal L World

[Brian Goetz]

Or perhaps that is LWn (1 < n < 10).

> On May 17, 2018, at 12:05 AM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
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> IMO, for experimental purposes any special javac check that blocks VTs from genetics needs<LW1> to have a command line switch to unblock, so we can see by special experiment where exactly VT erasure breaks generics. 
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> On May 16, 2018, at 7:53 PM, Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com <mailto:daniel.smith at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>>> On May 16, 2018, at 4:45 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>>> No support for any interaction between values and generics _whatsoever_ (I said minimal!)
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>> You clarified that this means the compiler actively rejects types like List<Point>. Not clear to me what would prompt that—it's more work for the compiler, the JVM doesn't care either way, and it's easy for users to work around (use a raw type).
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>> But the quality of language support will be "crappy ad-hoc" anyway, so, you know, whatever works. I'm just happy to have a compiler at all!