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Re: eliminate gcjh?
Yep, Nice is really really cool. But Cayenne is cooler ;)
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Christian Stuellenberg <gcj@stuellenberg.de> writes:
>>>>>> "AM" == Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> writes:
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> AM> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> >> For instance, 1.5 has covariant methods,
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> AM> Is it covariant at the bytecode level, or just at the language
> AM> level? If it's the former, doesn't this break compatability?
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> If I remind right, all this is "only" at language level, since they
> did not want to change the VM (to stay compatible e.g.). 1.5 does
> only translation of some syntactic sugar to other valid java code on
> the fly I think... some real functional featueres (while still
> staying compatible to most VM's back to 1.3/2) you can accomplish
> using http://nice.sf.net/.
>
> Christian
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