jvm wishes and gripes

Mon Feb 4 12:37:00 GMT 2002

Adam Megacz wrote:
>Cedric Berger <cedric@wireless-networks.com> writes:
>>>No. they didn't add new bytecodes (at least not in classfiles, what
>>the VM do internally is another issue).
>>>>If Sun ever gets up the gumption to add instructions, I dearly hope
>that stack-allocated objects and *real* generic types (not the
>expensive jdk1.4 casting syntax-sugar) are among them.
>You mean 1.5, right?
>While I'm wishing, some cleaner syntax for closures would be nice
>too... and peace on earth... and a winnebago...
>>I can't really be the only person who wants this stuff, can I?
>I believe it's too late to change java bytecode. For example, what would
you do with all the microcontrollers that interprets the java bytecode 
directly?
>Oh yeah, one more thing... why doesn't the Java Language spec allow
>this:
>> class A {
> A foo() { return null; }
> }
>> class B extends A {
> B foo() { return null; }
> }
>Look a bit more closely at the "expensive jdk 1.4^c^c^c 1.5 casting 
syntax sugar".
your code above will be valid under the new specs.
Cedric