Language extensions ?

Wed Apr 2 10:10:00 GMT 2003

Robin Garner writes:
 > 
 > I could use a RawData field as long as I could convert between it and
 > an int/long without the overhead of a procedure call, and do
 > comparisons. Arithmetic would then be a nice-to-have.
 > 
 > The argument that "java doesn't need to do it because that's what CNI
 > is for" is missing the point of what I'm suggesting.
We're not missing the point. We're disagreeing.
 > I'm saying that by adding a few features to Java there should be
 > less need to drop out to C/C++, and this would be a Good Thing.
You haven't said why. IMO it would be a Bad Thing.
Eclipse SWT, for example, does everything this way. But there are
some nasty consequences: for example, there is no sizeof in Java, and
this casues some fairly evil problems. And bugs are very hard to
track down.
Andrew.