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Re: Should we build a superset of Java?
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Paul Mclachlan <pdm@acm.org> writes:
> At 9:11 04 Apr 2001 -0700, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
>
> > It has bothered me for a long time that SUN hasn't opened up Java to a peer
> > review process (no... the JCP does not count). I have a number of small things
> > I would like to see added to Java and GCJ seems like a great way to standardize.
> >
> > Then you would end up with nested Exceptions. Java currently doesn't support
> > this (except if you build it). I think it is a logical extension but there is
> > no way I am going to go through the JCP to get this added.
> >
> > Has anyone defined a way GCJ is going to add language extensions this in the
> > future? Remember we don't have a standards committee :)
>
> I would encourage you to -not- do this; at the very least, the Java community
> (myself included) rarely appreciates extensions that will stop your code being
> portable between implementations. And the next release (1.4) of Java supports
> nested exceptions, if that's your beef. ;)
Why would anyone want their code portable to non-Free platforms??? Considering
GCJ is the only real free impl of Java :)
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